• In the over-informed society in which we live, the problem “is not finding a meaningful message, it is understanding it, in other words acknowledging it as important for me, as significant because of the multiple responses I get”. This was acknowledged by father Antonio Spadaro, director of the Jesuit fathers’ fortnightly magazine “La Civiltà Cattolica”, as he spoke earlier today at the meeting of the bishops in charge of social communication for the European Bishops Conferences, which is taking place in Athens (Greece) about “Communication as encounter, between authenticity and concreteness”, on the initiative of the Commission for Social Communication of Ccee (Council of European Bishops Conferences). The Web – he pointed out – “is not an instrument”, it is “an environment and an experience” that “is increasingly and liquidly becoming an integral part of daily life”. It is “a connective tissue of human experiences” and, since it is an experience itself, “”it becomes one of the ordinary ways man has at his disposal to express his natural spirituality”. Hence the question, whether the web is a dimension in which the Gospel may be announced and experienced. The true challenge for the Church, according to Spadaro, is “taking a more and more communicative and participatory shape”, because communication, then, “no longer means transmitting, it means sharing”.

    Source: SIR Daily

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