The New Evangelization Series
Tools for the New Evangelization
The New Evangelization Series
Tools for the New Evangelization
Appendix B
“In today’s culture of technology too, the Gospel is the guide and the permanent paradigm of inculturation, purifying, healing and elevating the best features of … the new forms of communication.”
Technology and the New Evangelization: Criteria for Discernment
— Pope Benedict XVI
Fr. Jonah Lynch, FSCB & Michelle K. Borras
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Today we often hear the question, “How can the Church use new technologies to further her mission?” Before we can answer, we must first engage in the process of listening, interpretation and judgment – of discernment – that underlies every proclamation of the Gospel. This booklet is meant to help the reader to engage in this work of discernment. It offers guidelines for critically thinking through the questions, “What aspects of the new communications media are compatible with the message of God’s love made flesh in Jesus Christ? What are not? How do we ensure that the means we use to proclaim the Gospel have as their origin, abiding orientation, and goal a concrete encounter with the Love that saves?”
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