Pope: Digital domain needs loving dialogue, not spiritual engineers

Catholic News Service ^ | 9/26/2013 | Carol Glatz

[RBStealth]

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Helping the church get the Gospel message out to the digital world depends more on a loving passion for reaching out to others than being tech savvy or a verbal warrior, Pope Francis told Catholic communicators.

"I believe that the goal is to understand how to enter into dialogue with the men and women of today in order to appreciate their desires, their doubts and their hopes," he said in his talk Sept. 21.

Despite the temptation that exists today, dialogue and bringing people to Christ have nothing to do with hounding others into submission in a kind of "theological brainwashing," he said.

[Jeff Chandler]

hounding others into submission in a kind of "theological brainwashing," he said.

I wish Il Papa would cite some examples.

[Boogieman]

Obviously he’s not a fan of the Religion Forum.

[Biggirl]

Means the digital cannot replace face to face time.

[Pajamajan]

"people sometimes feel let down by a Christianity that to them appears sterile and in difficulty as it tries to communicate the depth of meaning that comes with the gift of faith."

Interesting article well worth taking the time to read.

[avenir]

I’m not “Catholic”, but these excerpted comments of Francis do not fairly represent the whole of what he said. I agree with him that an encounter with Jesus cannot be forcefully engineered.

[Pajamajan]

LOL-The Religion Forum was the first thing that came to mind when I read the “hounding others into submission” part.

[Pajamajan]

The excerpts don’t cover all of what the Pope said. I encourage everyone to go to the site and read the whole article,

[Jeff Chandler]

LOL-The Religion Forum was the first thing that came to mind when I read the “hounding others into submission” part.

You are correct.

[RBStealth]

from my profile:
In a nutshell, I try to practice my Christianity instead of just walloping others over the head about it.

[Tax-chick]

the digital cannot replace face to face time

And that's the truth!