Thanks to Rocco for linking to a report from the meeting of the European Episcopal Commission for Media at the Vatican this week. (See my earlier post on this meeting.) Some quotes from the report on the meeting:"The Internet is increasingly an integral part of everyday life," Bishop Jean-Michel Di Falco said.... "By not being present (on the Web), you cut yourself off from a large part of people's lives," added the bishop of Gap, in southeastern France....I'd very much like to have dinner with Bishop Di Falco and the opportunity to hear more of his ideas for the future of the Church on the Internet and the future of the Internet in the Church.
The Web "shuffles the deck, makes us step down from our pedestal, from our magisterial chair and makes us come out of our ghettos," said Di Falco.
"Pope, cardinals, bishops, priests, lay people -- with the Internet we enter a marketplace, a free and spontaneous space where everything is said about everything, where everyone can debate everything," he added."We should promote a Christian presence on the Web made up of operators including priests who of course master communication techniques but also provide spaces for research, encounters, dialogue and prayer," Di Falco said.
I wonder: does the AFA know that Gap has its own bishop?
And yes, the pope surfs the net and uses email!
Animated image: EJC
ConcordPastor
Got a chuckle over "does the AFA know that GAP has its own bishop"!!!
ReplyDeleteI hope that you will have a chance to speak to Bishop DiFalco. Perhaps you could find out his e-mail address and communicate via the internet. I imagine he would be interested to learn of your blog that can be translated into French!
Rosemary
Father, are you on Facebook?
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