Make Good News understandable to this generation

“If we are to share the Good News with our brothers and sisters in the ‘digital continent’, we must speak a language they can understand and be present as authentic witnesses to our faith.”

This are the words of the Secretary of the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission on Social Communication, Msgr. Paul Tighe to the participants of the 2nd Catholic Social Media Summit, Nov 23-24 at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran, where he is the keynote speaker.

He added, communication can touch people’s hearts only if one is able “to listen to them and engage seriously with their questions.”

In a report posted at cbcpnews website, Msgr. Tighe said participants should become good citizens of the digital world, open to dialogue and to witness a life consistent with evangelization, emphasizing the language of digital and social communications as conversational, interactive and dialogical.
“We are the ones to engage the people, we need to tell people that power, popularity, beauty, wealth will not satisfy our life,” he quipped.

The Vatican official also emphasized convergence and working together for the Church, adding: “We would only become effective communicators, if we ourselves allow the word of God to work in our lives.”
In the Archdiocese of Davao, the Davao Catholic Herald, dubbed as Asia’s longest-running Catholic newspaper publishes articles that are understandable not only of the language of the youth of today but also of the people in the grassroots level—the Basic Ecclesial Communities. (@dcherald)