La plenaria del Pontificio Consiglio delle Comunicazioni Sociali
For diaconia
digital culture
By Easter there will be a new "portal multimediatico" which will flow to the news published by "L'Osservatore Romano " from Vatican Radio and by ' agency Fides, a sort of Vatican news portal - initially in English and Italian, then French, English and Portuguese - who will gather all the media presence of the Holy See, which will maintain its autonomy and individuality. The announcement was made by Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications during the plenary of the department, which opened Monday, February 28 at the headquarters in Via della Conciliazione, ending Thursday, March 3.
In presenting the activities of the department in 2010, the bishop also mentioned that you ran an update of corporate website . The new features include the ability to see some articles and the choice of giving greater visibility to issues or situations affecting ecclesial communion in different countries. It is also preparing a forum for a wide-ranging discussion on the theology of communication. Another new is the arrival of a priest of the Arabic language that will work with the Pontifical Council. This is very crucial in this context - said the archbishop - because it allows to follow closely the Arab-language media to try to understand what is happening in that area and to verify the extent to which reference is made to the Pope and Church.
The president then pointed out how this year the ministry has worked in a real dialogue and fraternity with the various episcopal conferences and local churches on some key points, beginning with the existence of a digital culture "increasingly pervasive" from new media. Faced with this issue, the Church "Establish a fruitful dialogue to door finding the answer in the line of a real diaconate of digital culture." An all-diaconia - he said - to "make their own media in the context of the Gospel message resonates."
The past year has also deepened the dialogue with the academic world, with particular attention to Africa in this regard is the significant contribution made by the department to the creation of a continental Catholic news. It has also organized a training course for professionals in the field of communication of the diocese of Cuba, which will be developed over three years. The secretary of the department, Monsignor Paul Tighe, announced that it is studying the revision of Aetatis novae. This work will lead to develop a new pastoral document. For its part, the under secretary of the Pontifical Council, Angelo Scelzo, described the news as regards audio-visual coverage in the Vatican. You are making a revision of the licensing process with particular reference to the beatification of John Paul II on 1 May. There will be an increasingly close cooperation between the ministry and the Holy See Press Office, said Scelzo, which may be the prelude to a possible unification of the credits.
Other interventions opening day were those of Don Franco Lever, who has spoken of the languages \u200b\u200bof communication in the digital world. "The Christian message - he said - is not reducible to a set of information bit sequences so as to be transmitted through the new media. The Christian message is a proposal for life is to live as God's family in the manner of Jesus." The first option, he said, is to "experience the community, forming community, just as Jesus did." To achieve this "no medium available today must stay outside, but we will use it while respecting the priorities of the project."
Claudia Di Giovanni then spoke of the Film Library Vatican - defined as a "memory box" - and the effort that saved thousands of feet of film will continue to remember the history. "The film - has revealed - beyond the innovations continues after more than 116 years and still seems to be the most enduring standard of conservation." Leticia Soberon then outlined three projects sponsored by the Continental Mission Red Informática de la Iglesia en América Latina (RIIAL). as an organic part of the Pontifical Council, the RIIAL put at the heart of its priorities the training of pastoral agents, or digital computer, with its original charism: a genuine digital culture in the key of communion. Taddheus Milton Jones has finally shown some statistics on the broadcasts from the Vatican in 2010: the establishment of a January was distributed in 25 countries, the Via Crucis in 43, the Easter Mass in 45, the message and blessing urbi et orbi in 56, the Christmas midnight mass in 49, the message and blessing urbi et orbi Christmas Day in 52.
(© L'Osservatore Romano - March 2, 2011)
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