"The paper will sketch first some developments and indicate directions in the field of social communication to clarify developments which shape our communication situation in a digital world as the environment wherein evangelization takes place. This will be followed, second, by presenting two missi
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on documents and their communication consequences and show—third—how this is reflected in the Asian church. The paper concludes—fourth—by reflecting on the need for a proper communication spirituality to be based on a mission spirituality as proposed by Pope John Paul II." (Page 103)
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"This study aims to examine the pastoral situations of Wenzhou Diocese, to evaluate the formation for laity in Wenzhou Diocese under pastoral communication perspective, to find its positive and critical signs, as well as to analyze the pastoral needs, which leads to integrate pastoral communication
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in lay formation. The survey result shows that “Xue Xi Ban” (Basic Ecclesial Community in Wenzhou context) helps laity in Wenzhou to know Catholic faith, to live as Christian, to have sense of belonging, and to exercise their vocation and mission. The lack of Catechists, the study content, need for community building, and missing structural support, are the critical signs of “Xue Xi Ban”, which indicates the pastoral needs for lay formation. These needs are categorized as the need of strengthening pastoral communication in ministry (Preaching, Catechesis, Liturgy, Biblical Apostolate, and Service), the need of formation for catechists, and the need of means of social communication. This study also finds out seven challenges for lay formation: the Atheistic approach, the political pressure, the threat of Materialism, the impact of migration, the family problem, the division among the Catholic Church, and lack witness of life. The pastoral needs and challenges demand an emphasis on pastoral communication. By using the “Wenzhou Model of development”, the research explores the possibilities of integrating pastoral communication in lay formation, which includes to make a five-year pastoral plan, to promote Basic Ecclesial Community, to use possible agents for lay formation, and to create possible programs for lay formation." (Abstract)
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"Esta pesquisa tem por escopo averiguar como se dá a construção da identidade do sacerdote católico no ciberespaço no contexto da intersecção entre comunicação, cibercultura e religião. Considerando que a identidade é construída por meio de narrativas, a investigação tem por objetivo a
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nalisar as identidades produzidas no ciberespaço a partir dos recursos técnicos disponibilizados na ambiência digital, mais especificamente no site pessoal do sacerdote. Inicialmente, a investigação busca, na filosofia, a fundamentação teórica da identidade a partir dos pensadores da antiguidade: Heráclito, Parmênides e Aristóteles, e da modernidade: René Descartes, David Hume e John Locke. Em seguida situa a identidade no contexto da cultura, recorrendo a autores como Stuart Hall, Anthony Giddens e Zygmunt Bauman, cuja realidade abarca as invenções técnicas no campo da comunicação, que queremos aprofundar auxiliando-nos dos estudos de Marshall McLuhan, Douglas Kellner e Dominique Wolton e especificamente o ciberespaço, nas sendas de pesquisadores como Pierre Levy, Lucia Santaella e André Lemos. Sopesando que o objeto de análise, no contexto do ciberespaço, é a identidade do sacerdote católico, a segunda parte da investigação visa situar o sacerdote na instituição “Igreja Católica” e a aprofundar a relação desta como a comunicação, buscando referencial teórico nos Documentos da Igreja e em pesquisadores como Joana Puntel, Antonio Spadaro, Jorge Miklos e Moisés Sbardelotto. Por fim, na terceira parte, a investigação, por meio de método qualitativo, analisa sites de quatro conhecidos sacerdotes da mídia brasileira (Pe. Reginaldo Manzotti, Pe. Marcelo Rossi, Pe. Juarez de Castro e Pe. Fábio de Melo), no sentido de delinear como são construídas e desconstruídas suas identidades nas estratégias programadas da plataforma digital." (Resumo)
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"Every day, countless conversations take place online about the Catholic faith on social media, and the Diocese of Dallas encourages Church and School personnel to join these conversations to proclaim the Gospel. The Diocese of Dallas also respects the rights of Church and School personnel to use so
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cial media as a form of self-expression. It is important that we make every effort to ensure the safety of producers and consumers of social media, while at the same time ensuring the integrity of the message we proclaim. This requires responsible, focused, and intentional use of new and yet-to-be-developed technologies. These guidelines apply to all Church and School personnel (employees, clergy and all volunteers), and to their use of social networking sites, blogs, or any other kind of social media. Other websites are usually not considered social media, but this policy also applies to the creation, content and use of parish, school, and ministry websites, as well as to online discussion by any Church and School personnel of matters pertaining to ministry." (Page 2)
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"The paper presents results of the research focused on opinion leaders and interpretive communities of young active Catholics in Slovakia in connection with contemporary ecclesial-societal issues. The author pays a special attention to the Church opinion leaders and the sources of the opinion leader
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s credibility. She proceeds from a broader research, realized on the sample of 339 respondents from 18 to 40 years old. She is linking her findings with the three current ecclesial-societal issues: the removal of the archbishop Róbert Bezák from office, financial separation of Church and state and clerical celibacy." (Abstract)
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"Esta obra pretende contribuir com a Educação para a Comunicação, Educomunicação, voltada à pastoral e ao ambiente educativo. A Educomunicação reúne os conceitos de educação e de comunicação embasados nos valores humanos e cidadãos, sendo o comprometimento social e de transformação
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partes integrantes do conceito, em toda as linguagens da comunicação, também na cultura digital. Em sua base teórica, recupera os valores da comunicação com ase no diálogo e na participação das pessoas e sua ação no mundo. O objetivo é compartilhar um caminho de formação para que a comunicação seja considerada e vivenciada como eixo articulador nas pastorais e no processo educativo, em que as diferentes linguagens que fazem parte do cotidiano possam ser assumidas pelas lideranças. A metodologia que integra o pensar, o produzir e o conviver é componente fundamental para a experiência educomunicativa, em que teoria e prática são partes de uma mesma realidade que leva à mudança do modo de pensar e atuar em favor de práticas evangelizadoras e educativas." (Descrição da editora de livros)
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"Con mirada contemplativa, el espectador de cine e internet es capaz de encontrar 'al otro' en la pantalla. Hoy es necesario conmoverse, detenerse ante el prójimo y poner los ojos en la periferias visuales. No importa de qué lado de la pantalla estemos. Cinéfilo y jesuita, el autor de este libro
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creció recorriendo interminables pasillos con carteles que anunciaban estrenos. Hoy nos propone otra manera de navegar por el mar de la imagen: que la pantalla sea un punto de encuentro cultural. Contemplarla para mirar, sentir y meditar." (Contratapa)
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"The history of Catholic mission in China has revealed the fact that the encounter of the Gospel with Chinese culture and people, beginning with the folk customs and the further dialogue with Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism. The summit of Church mission is in the period of Ming Dynasty. Matteo Ric
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ci, a Jesuit missionary, is considered the apostle of China. Since then, his missionary approach – the accommodation missionary strategy affirmed by the Second Vatican Council as the model of “Inculturation” – is widely studied not only in China but the entire world. The key to understand Ricci’s missionary method is Ricci himself. It is the initial step to explore his ministry and missionary activities in history, the Ming Dynasty. Pastoral and Evangelizing communication centers on the ministers, precisely, discussing the ways and means of pastoral and evangelizing ministry of the Church ad extra and ad intra. The decisive element to foster a competent communicator requires the communicative disposition, which means to open. Pastoral and Evangelizing communication also highlights to proper use the mass means of social communication to achieve the proclamation of Christ in Chinese context. Time has changed. Today, the Church in China needs to deal with the Sino-Vatican relationship, the divisions inside the Church and the social-economic challenges. The study tries to further investigate Ricci’s Missionary activities and approaches and to analyze it from the perspective of pastoral and evangelizing communication, so as to help pastoral ministers living in the 21st century in China." (Abstract)
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"The book presents all final statements of FABC communication meetings from 1996 to 2007, including the annual meetings of Asian communication bishops (Bishops' Meet), all six BISCOMs (Bishops' Institutes for Social Communication), and special gathering of experts (Roundtables) on Communication Rese
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arch, Communication and Evangelization, and Social Communication in Religious Traditions of Asia. This new approach, backed up by known Theologians is at the center of a respective course in the Pastoral Communication Program of the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas, Manila where the publication serves as a textbook." (Publisher description)
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