World Meeting of Families

Parents & the New Media

Monday, January 19th, 2009 | Bob | No Comments

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.

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Crazy Mirrors for a Deranged Society

Friday, January 16th, 2009 | Members | No Comments

Are you as oblivious as Humpty Dumpty when it comes to the media, naively considering yourself a critical thinker when in actuality, you meekly swallow the preaching of today’s opinion-makers? — Zenit.org

Zenit summarizes the remarks of Dr. González Gaitano, dean of the faculty of institutional communication of Rome’s Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, at the 6th World Meeting of Families.

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Connection vs. Communication

Thursday, January 15th, 2009 | Bob | No Comments

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.

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