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Pope Benedict XVIth has released his message for the 46th World Day of Social Communications which falls on May 20th. The theme he has chosen this year is “Silence and Word: Path of Evangelization”.
Our friends over at Vatican Radio have the full text!
Pope Benedict XVI met a rare 60cm crocodylus rhombifer crocodile from Cuba this week. If crocodiles could talk, what would this one have said to the Pope? Share your captions below!
Yesterday, the Vatican’s Pontifical Councils for Culture and Social Communications invited bloggers for dialog on May 2, the day after the beatification of Pope John Paul II. Twitter and Facebook filled up with re-posts of the information, garnering some real interest from those bloggers in a position to go to to Rome, and a lot of wishful thinking from the rest of us.
The lucky few to attend will surely be blogging about it soon enough, and the Catholic Weekend crew is looking forward to hearing more about this historic meeting. In the meantime, the conversation continues among bloggers, including Rocco Palmo’s Whispers in the Loggia and Brian H. Gill’s A Catholic Citizen in America among others.
Check out the latest Catholic Weekend show, where Maria Johnson, Deb Schaben, and Capt. Jeff discuss this and more… listen here
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Fr. Roderick is invited, and Lisa Hendey! Congrats!nnhttp://www.pccs.va/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=388%3Apccs&catid=1%3Aultime&Itemid=50&lang=it
In the photo that accompanies this article, Pope Benedict is holding an iPad. Does he own and use an iPad? I wonder if he uses an iPad when he celebrates Mass?
On Good Friday, Pope Benedict XVI will answer viewers questions on TV. The Vatican confirmed this after the Italian newspaper La Corriera della Sera broke the news.
It is the first time in the history of television that a Pope answers viewers’ questions. The television program will be recorded in advance. Pope Benedict XVI will pick three questions to answer.
Pope Benedict is the first pope to give television interviews. In 2005 and 2006, he was interviewed for Polish and German television in preparation of his pastoral visits to these countries.
If you could ask Pope Benedict XVI one question, which one would that be?
In an address to the participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications on February 28, Pope Benedict XVI talked about the ‘digital culture’ and about the need for the Church to learn how to speak of the Kingdom of God in new media.
We have compiled a summary of the most important parts of his address.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In this year’s message for the World Day of Social Communications, I invited all to reflect on the fact that new technologies have not only changed the way of communicating, but are carrying out a vast cultural transformation. A new way of learning and thinking is being carried out, with unheard of opportunities to establish relationships and to build communion.
The new languages being developed in digital communication determine [..] a more intuitive and emotive than analytical capacity, they orient toward a logical organization of thought and of the relationship with reality, often privileging the image and hyper-textual connections.
Moreover, the clear traditional distinction between the written and oral language seems to vanish in favor of a written communication that takes the form and immediacy of oral communication.
The dynamics proper to the “participatory networks” require, moreover, that the person be involved in what he communicates. When persons exchange information, they are already sharing themselves and their vision of the world: they become “witnesses” of what gives meaning to their existence.
The risks that are run are certainly far from everyone’s eyes: the loss of interiority, superficiality in living relationships, the flight to the emotive nature, the prevalence of the most convincing opinion in regard to the desire for truth.
The digital culture poses new challenges to our capacity to speak and to listen to a symbolic language that speaks of transcendence. In the proclamation of the Kingdom, Jesus himself was able to use the elements of the culture and the environment of his time: the flock, the fields, the banquet, the seeds, etc. Today we are called to discover, also in the digital culture, significant symbols and metaphors for persons, which can be of help when speaking of the Kingdom of God to contemporary man.
We must consider also that communication in the times of the “new means of communication” entails an ever narrower and ordinary relationship between man and machines, from computers to mobile telephones, to mention only the most common. What will be the effects of this constant relationship?
It is [..] the appeal to spiritual values which will make it possible to promote a truly human communication: beyond all enthusiasm or easy skepticism, we know that this is an answer to the call imprinted on our nature of beings created in the image and likeness of God in communion.
[..] The contribution of believers could be of help for the world of the media itself, opening horizons of meaning and value that the digital culture is not capable to perceive and represent on its own.
You can read the full translation of the Pope’s text here: http://www.zenit.org/article-31877?l=english
I agree with Dan on this.
Really interesting. It was nice to read a condensed version of Pope Benedict’s letter for social communications. It nice to see how SQPN is really helping other Catholic believers (and soon-to-be Catholics) contribute in their own unique way to the digital culture in spreading the Good News of our faith. Keep up the great work and may God continue to bless SQPN’s mission of leading the way in Catholic ‘new’ Media.
Ray, 
Bruce, 
Pat Payne and 18 others are discussing. 
Anastasis, and 
Ray 6:09 am on January 19, 2012 Permalink |
Grace before meals, “Thank you Lord for the bounty I am about to receive”.
Bruce 7:38 pm on January 18, 2012 Permalink |
I gotta get me a beanie like that!!
Matthew Alderman 9:21 pm on January 17, 2012 Permalink |
“Good news, Holy Father! They finally figured out what happened to Pope Formosus’s finger!”
Dan Hyatt 8:19 am on January 13, 2012 Permalink |
I know you can dance the “Papal Disco”, your Holiness, but what about the “Crocodile Rock”?
Jimmy Akin 1:00 am on January 12, 2012 Permalink |
When I read that they brought a Cuban crocodile to the pope’s general audience, I thought it was a big, huge 16-footer. Then it turns out it’s this tiny little baby! I don’t think this is a crocodile *worthy* of the holy father! It’s too small!
Therefore, my caption for the tiny thing is: “Dominus, lo sum dignus.”
Jimmy Akin 1:05 am on January 12, 2012 Permalink |
That is, “Domine, non sum dignus.”
Josh Bell 10:26 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
“Gimme a homily and make it snappy.”
malani 8:43 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
I saw Santa-Jaws, Papa!
katherine vazquez 7:16 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
Do not let me become stylish
Laura 7:01 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
Bless me Papa for I have eaten…….
Fr. Robert 7:00 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
Holy Father, he has wondered away from his flock. We ask him to Come and See.
elfederiQo 6:06 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
“Jeees, Holy Father, I am sooo glad you don’t dig croc-handbags”
Ismael 5:51 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
In Vatican Papa talk to world, in communist Cuba Crocodile talk to Papa!
Steve 5:22 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
Thanks for the moisturizing advice, but my skin is always like this.
Bill in Racine 5:21 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
Mea culpa, Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Mary 5:14 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
¿Todos los cocodrilos van al cielo, si?
Mary 5:04 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
Hola papa!
Jim F. 4:48 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
No, really! I’ll just kiss the ring! I promise!
Bro Etienne Huard 4:43 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
“Nice shoes!”
graham 8:27 am on January 12, 2012 Permalink |
they must be Crocs then ;0)
Jim 4:25 pm on January 11, 2012 Permalink |
I know what you’ve said before, but I think I should receive in the hand.
Pat Payne 7:07 pm on January 18, 2012 Permalink |
“I’m really sorry about being responsible for Msgr. Hook. It’ll never happen again, I swear!”