New Media and the Mission of the Church - Some Notes on a Topical Issue
New Media and the Mission of the Church - Some Notes on a Topical Issue

Summary/Abstract: In the context in which the truly overwhelming impact that new-media generates in post-modern society has repercussions, in an increasingly obvious way, on the Church and its pastoral-missionary activities, our study aims to identify and evaluate some of the aspects that define the interaction of the ecclesial institution with the new electronic means of communication. We will therefore try to develop a possible perspective on how public discourse and the Church’s ministry can relate to the new technologies and their particularities, highlighting the opportunities that new media open up from a missiological point of view, as the recent pandemic conjuncture has proved. After all, the new media are a truly defining component of the contemporary world; ignoring them is, of course, possible, but at a price which, realistically speaking, no contemporary institution can afford, the Church being no exception to the global and imperative need to assimilate and put the new technologies into practice.

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