Monsignor Paul Tighe - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 12 Nov 2018 05:13:51 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Monsignor Paul Tighe - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Vatican urges priests to embrace social media https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/11/12/vatican-priests-social-media/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:53:21 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=113713 Priests should embrace social media, says Monsignor Paul Tighe. Tighe, who helped develop Pope Francis' online presence, is urging Catholic clergy across the world to embrace social media to reach believers and non-believers. Read more

Vatican urges priests to embrace social media... Read more]]> Priests should embrace social media, says Monsignor Paul Tighe.

Tighe, who helped develop Pope Francis' online presence, is urging Catholic clergy across the world to embrace social media to reach believers and non-believers. Read more

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A Vatican official has told a gathering of Philippine Church leaders and Catholic social media practitioners in Manila to speak in a language understandable to the digital world to be effective evangelizers. "If we are to share the Good News with our brothers and sisters in the digital continent, we must speak a language they Read more

Vatican official urges faithful to speak language of digital world... Read more]]> A Vatican official has told a gathering of Philippine Church leaders and Catholic social media practitioners in Manila to speak in a language understandable to the digital world to be effective evangelizers.

"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," said Monsignor Paul Tighe, secretary of the Vatican's Pontifical Commission on Social Communication.

Speaking at the two-day Catholic Social Media Summit in Manila, Tighe said the challenge confronting the Church is how to communicate effectively the word of God to today's social media generation.

He said the language of digital and social communication is appropriate for evangelization because it is "conversational, interactive and dialogical."

To become good citizens of the digital world, one must be open to dialogue and live a life that is "consistent with the Gospel," he said.

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Vatican official urges faithful to speak language of digital world]]> 52550 Bishop Pompallier brought new media to the Maori https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/05/08/bishop-pompallier-brought-new-media-to-the-maori/ Mon, 07 May 2012 19:33:35 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=24815

Last week the Australian Catholic Media Congress took place in Sydney. Monsignor Paul Tighe, a media adviser from the Vatican, told the assembly that new media technologies "enable the forming of community, they have extraordinary potential for the wellbeing of the church". In his CathBlog Michael Visontay points out that over 150 years ago, under Read more

Bishop Pompallier brought new media to the Maori... Read more]]> Last week the Australian Catholic Media Congress took place in Sydney. Monsignor Paul Tighe, a media adviser from the Vatican, told the assembly that new media technologies "enable the forming of community, they have extraordinary potential for the wellbeing of the church".

In his CathBlog Michael Visontay points out that over 150 years ago, under the leadership of Bishop Pompallier, a printing press was established in Russell, New Zealand. The Church "embraced new media with a zeal and passion that breathed new life into a whole culture, and transformed the lives of thousands of people".

Michael Visontay is editor in chief of CathNews Australia.

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