Vatican City, Oct 15, 2010 / 07:51 am
The Church must intensify its presence in today’s "digital culture," Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, told Church leaders Oct. 15.
Addressing bishops gathered for the special two-week meeting on the Church’s future in the Middle East, Archbishop Celli said traditional communications methods -- radio, television, and print -- are no longer sufficient for the Church’s mission.
The archbishop called for “a pastoral conversion.” He said the Church must rise to the challenge of finding new ways to communicate the faith.
"We cannot continue to speak in our categories to a population that is increasingly distant from them,” he said. This does not mean, he said, “running after the latest technology.” Instead it means “understanding the categories of the other and using them."