martedì 5 luglio 2011

Catholic bloggers are “an extraordinary reality in the life of the church"

Msgr. Paul Tighe, secretary for the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications, made that observation during an impromptu meeting June 23 about blogging held during the Catholic Media Convention in Pittsburgh.

Catholic bloggers have a strong sense of community, Msgr. Tighe said, and church leaders need to be aware of what’s happening in the blogosphere because bloggers can “reach places that we’re not going to reach.”
“We can provide them with the right kind of materials that they can work with,” he said. “They can give a reach out into broader communities. And that’s important.”
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It is true because the bloggers are those who now is in the forefront to build a christian's digital culture as it said by Mons. Tighe, in places where the church itself can not arrive.  The document LG 33 reminds us that "the laity are called in a special way to make the Church present and operative in those places and circumstances where only through them can it become the salt of the earth".