Digital communications challenge Church to find new ways to evangelize, Pope says

October 29, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI met on October 29 with the members of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, who are gathered in their plenary meeting this week under the direction of Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli. In his remarks to the group the Holy Father said that modern communications technology poses a great challenge to the Church, "which is called to announce the Gospel to persons in the third millennium, maintaining its content unaltered but making it understandable, thanks also to the instruments and methods in tune with today's mentality and culture."

 

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Further information:

• Deaconate of Culture in the Digital Continent (VIS)