Rome, Italy, Oct 4, 2010 / 13:06 pm
People have come from all over the world to Rome this week to examine the Church's place in the technological age. Opening the deliberations, the head of the Vatican council for communications outlined some of the themes of the congress, which include a look at the identity and mission of Catholic media.
The Pontifical Council for Social Communications (PCCS) is sponsoring the "Catholic Press Congress," which began just a few blocks from Vatican City at the St. Pius X Auditorium on Monday. Organizers said there were around 230 representatives from 85 countries present on the first day, representing the Catholic media worldwide.
Opening the four-day examination of "Catholic press in the digital age," the council's president, Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, set the tone in his inaugural speech, saying that participants and organizers were there to listen to each other and to find answers to uncertainties in the field.
He emphasized that the encounter was called because there was a need to come together to analyze the theme in the current global context, which he called "strongly influenced and marked by new technologies that push towards 'multimediality'."