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Pope to Journalists: Live Your Faith
Benedict XVI is inviting Catholic journalists to bear witness to their faith by the life they lead. — Zenit.org
Summary of the Holy Father’s message to the president of the Catholic Union of the Italian Press.
Media Impact on Children
Media can be a positive influence in the lives of children and adolescents, but care is needed to avoid the negative side effects. This is the conclusion of a series of 10 short papers just released by the journal Children and Electronic Media. — Zenit.org
Zenit summarizes the research contained in these papers and concludes that “parents have to take responsibility for helping their children develop healthy media habits.”
Parents & the New Media
The family and the ecclesial community must be the place where meaning is created, in which we learn to filter, to decide, to choose what is seen and heard. The family and the community are an occasion for dialogue between the Church and the world. — Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president, Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Zenit summarizes Archbishop Celli’s remarks in a video message to the Sixth World Conference of Families.
Cyberchastity
Sebastian Mahfood’s February 19th lecture on “cyberethics” will cover topics of particular interest to parents and their teenaged children, such as cyberbullying and cyberchastity. This article on the popularity of “sexting” among Cincinnati teens should be required reading for all parents.
Connection vs. Communication
Youth are acquiring a mental habit of living “connected” — connected, that is, to the Internet. But being “connected” is not the same as communicating, warns a Chilean philosopher. – Zenit.org
Zenit summarizes the comments of Jaime Antúnez, editor of Humanitas, delivered at the 6th World Meeting of Families in Mexico City.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pray for Us!
On joyfully celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of America to whom the Digital Network of the Church in Latin America (RIIAL) continually renews its consecration, I wish to send a fraternal and sincere greeting to all the men and women who serve the Church with the charism of communication. . . . — Archbishop Claudio Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
The archbishop’s message to Catholic media professionals, excerpted above, is posted in its entirety on the Zenit website.
Good Homilies Have Two Prerequisites
A good homily cannot be prepared as if it were any type of communication; it requires the foundation of the priest’s personal Christian witness and a clear and concrete message, affirmed a specialist in communications.
The Revolution Will be Brought to You by Text Messaging
During the 2007 protests in Myanmar, the media reported that the opposition was coordinating their protests by text messaging and getting video out of the country through wireless internet connections. These tactics were so successful that the government limited international internet access; it later shut down all wireless connections for a period. Eventually the government was forced to restore service, as the shutdown incapacitated government forces as much as the opposition. We have now seen similar such phenomena in Tibet, China, and Kenya.
Article by Garrett Jones, Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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