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Embracing the Digital Revolution: Church's Mission in a Changing World

Explore the intersection of Church and digital communications in a transformative age marked by new media dynamics and the promotion of genuine encounters. Discover the ethics, challenges, and opportunities presented by the digital landscape, emphasizing authentic dialogue and the values of respect, honesty, and openness. Uncover the significance of witness, authenticity, and neighborly love in fostering a culture of encounter and sharing hope. Delve into the impact of digital transformation on society and the Church's role in embodying Christ's perfect communication through a networked and engaging approach.

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Embracing the Digital Revolution: Church's Mission in a Changing World

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  1. The Church in a Digital World World Communications Day Lecture Paul Tighe London, 5 June 2014

  2. Context • Church and Communications • Mission – bring Good News to ends of the earth • Communication – constitutive human activity, flourishing of society, face future • Related – contribution and concern • World Communications Day Messages – audiences (all, specialists, believers) • Benedict to Francis – digital revolution • Francis – promote authentic culture of encounter (nearness, solidarity)

  3. Digital World • Revolution/Transformation – cultural, change in communications • Identity, relationships and Community (Foresight, Beddington) • ‘New media’ – newness, dynamics, evolving, radical • Digital is real – must be present (@pontifex) • Avoid dualism – interpenetration (Jurgenson) • Media ‘ecosystem’ – environment, beyond instruments and use

  4. Citizens • Good or Bad • Positive – gift for humanity, from God (not naïve) • Human achievement – User Generated Culture • Agency – regulation and individual responsibility • Social – intrinsic ethic(Trust) • Values/Attitudes – respect, honesty, objectivity, reason, openness, listening • Professionals – bad and good, highest standards (price) • Culture of Encounter - value other, quality of relationships • Dialogue – listening, learning, sharing (more than a tactic) • Authenticity

  5. Believers • Shared task • Giving a soul – integral humanity • Questions – not selling, imposing or manipulating • Witness – time, walking with others, rule for the pilgrim • Sharing source of joy and hope • Neighbour – nearness, closeness • Good Samaritan – compassion, mercy, tenderness • Imitate and Recognize • Time to speak – time to let love speak (Deus caritas est, 31)

  6. Language • Style – conversational, participative, engagement , listen, converse, encourage • Institutional challenge – subsidiarity, devolved interactivity (glocal) • Modes – beyond the text, multimedia (beauty), warming hearts • Show rather than tell – experience of living (Stained Glass - Facebook, Youtube, apps) • Vocabulary - words, icons, rituals (grammar of simplicity) • Christ the Perfect Communicator – his words not ours (lectio divina) • Vision, values and norms – Yes before No

  7. Conversion • Witness/Authenticity – Encounter with Christ • Savouring the Word (silence and solitude) – actio segue esse • Silence and Solitude • Turning other cheek • Trust – professional and graced, no complacency yet …. • Faith – mustard seed/yeast

  8. Convergence • Strategy – convergence not competition • Learn by doing – innovate, measure, reflect • Networked learning – sharing, refining, adapting • Travel light – platforms change • Take risks – mol an oigeagustiocfaidhsi • Organic development – no master plan/no gurus • Laity and clergy – penetrate world with Christian spirit/witness to Christ in midst of human society (Gaudium et spes, 43)

  9. Receptivity • Anthropological grounds - connection, searching, play, sharing, following • Engage – friendship, truth, beauty, self-giving, openness • Critique false gods (wealth, power, fame) – truth in love • Augustine – only with God will my soul be at rest • Nostalgia, yearning • Mystery - encounter is personal ,no manipulation or engineering

  10. The Church in a Digital World World Communications Day Lecture Paul Tighe London, 5 June 2014

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