{"id":27081,"date":"2012-07-18T08:37:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T12:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/church-thinking-about-social-c\/"},"modified":"2012-07-18T08:37:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T12:37:52","slug":"church-thinking-about-social-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/church-thinking-about-social-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Church thinking about social communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">How theologians might reflect on communication and information technologies and the new culture that they create formed the basis of a symposium sponsored by the Pontifical Council on Social Communication, held at the Jesuit-sponsored Santa Clara University in California (USA) in late June. The PCCS, along with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops&#8217; Committee on Communications and the University&#8217;s Communication Department, convened a gathering of 25 theologians to begin a process of sustained theological reflection. The group focused on three general areas: ecclesiology, approaches from historical theology, and a theological understanding of digital culture, in each area considering the challenges that contemporary communication poses to the church&#8217;s theological understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233; min-height: 15.0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">Communication, whether the mass media or the Internet, has changed the environment in which people live, raising questions about church structure, personal identity, parish life, religious self-understanding, and religious formation and participation. For example, people take their identity from popular culture more than from the Church&#8217;s catechetics or even from the Gospel. The same mass media also promote a vertical model of the Church in which the local community, the parish, and the diocese disappear, <u>so that only &#8220;the Catholic Church&#8221; headed by the Pope matters<\/u>. Each of these poses a serious ecclesiological challenge, as each redefines the nature of the Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">To read the whole article, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pccs.va\/index.php\/en\/news2\/contributi\/item\/735-theology-and-communication-in-dialogue?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">the text here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; color: #333233; min-height: 15.0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How theologians might reflect on communication and information technologies and the new culture that they create formed the basis of a symposium sponsored by the Pontifical Council on Social Communication, held at the Jesuit-sponsored Santa Clara University in California (USA) in late June. 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