VATICAN CITY, 29 SEP 2009 (VIS) - "The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word" is the thought of the Pope's Message for the incoming World Day of Social Communications which is celebrated every assemblage on 24 January, Feast of St. Francis of Sales, patron saint of journalists.
A communique made public today explains that the intend of the Message is "to elicit priests in particular, during this Year for Priests and in the consequence of the Twelfth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, to consider the new subject media as a doable inventiveness for their ministry at the service of the Word. Likewise, it aims to encourage them to grappling the challenges arising from the new digital culture".
The book continues: "The new communications media, if adequately understood and exploited, can offer priests and all pastoral care workers a wealth of data which was difficult to access before, and assist forms of collaboration and increased communion that were previously unthinkable".
The communique concludes by noting that "if wisely used, with the support of experts in technology and the communications culture, the newborn media can become - for priests and for every pastoral tending workers - a valid and effective instrument for authentic and profound evangelisation and communion".
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