Sunday, May 12, 2013, was World Communications Day as well as Mother’s Day. With a new Pope and all that was going on, it slipped by without much notice. Pope Benedict XVI had already written and released his message for this year and it revealed an ever growing appreciation on the part of the Vatican for the use of social media in the spread of the Gospel.
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Pope Sees Social Networks as an Environment for Ministry
In recent years, the popes’ messages for World Communications Day have addressed in different ways the growing importance of the digital world in everyday life. The messages encourage engagement in social media for the “sake of the gospel” and urge pastors and those in pastoral ministry to be active ministers on the Internet. Pope Benedict’s message for 2013 stresses the importance of this engagement even more emphatically. He urges us…