VATICAN CITY (CNS) | New media are not just instruments for communicating, but they are having a huge impact on culture — on the way people interact and think, Pope Benedict XVI said.
“This constitutes a challenge for the church, called to proclaim the Gospel to people of the third millennium,” the pope said Oct. 29 during a meeting with members of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
The content of the Gospel message remains unchanged, he said, but the church must learn how to transmit that message to new generations and must do so by taking advantage of the new technology and new attitudes toward communications.
Pope Benedict said one of the marks of the new media culture is its multimedia and interactive structure. MORE...
