Davao Verbum Dei Media Foundation, Inc.

Why would the Church involve in social communications and mass media? Is this only for the sake of having a newspaper or radio or social media like what others are doing? Is this only to counter secular media?

When the Church, the Archdiocese of Davao in particular, started the Bishop Thibault Media Center (BTMC) sixty years ago, and now renamed Davao Verbum Dei Media Foundation, Inc., it was not just to go with the current of this world. It was not just going with the fashion of today. Instead, it is a continuation of the mission of evangelization, to preach the good news to the world in all ways including the use of various media of communication.

“The Church needs to be concerned for, and present in, the world of communication, in order to dialogue with people today and to help them encounter Christ” (Pope Francis). As followers of the Lord, we should feel it insufficient to rely only on homilies, seminars, retreats, etc. to believe we have spread the Word. We should get interested in “those means of communication which of their nature can reach and influence not merely single individuals but the very masses and even the whole human society” (Inter Mirifica). We should continue to support our social communications apostolate through moral, spiritual and material contributions.