Vatican Goes Tech, Launches Online News Portal
Perhaps The Vatican has just realized that technology can and will be its friend when it comes to disseminating information to the masses.
In fact, the home of The Holy See has launched http://www.news.va , a website in English and Italian, and will act as an aggregate for all the Vatican’s news outlets.
The portal is being launched Wednesday which is 60th anniversary of Benedict's ordination as a priest, according to The Associated Press .
Monsignor Claudio Maria Celli, who heads the Vatican office that developed the portal and will maintain it, said Benedict may put the site online himself with a click from the Apostolic Palace. The Vatican has worked out that it needs to evangelize its message to a greater, Internet-savvy audience.
The portal will group all sources of information from Vatican, including newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Radio Vatican, Vatican Information Service (VIS), Center for Television in the Vatican, the Holy See Press Office and Fides Agency, the information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies.
The new website will be available at the beginning in English and Italian. Starting in autumn, versions in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese will be launched. One of the features of the new portal is its interaction with social network Facebook and microblogging platform Twitter.
That’s right, Vatican has gone social.
Earlier in May, Vatican opened its doors for other technological endeavors and hosted its first ever blogging summit .
The conference was hosted by the Pontifical Council for Culture and drew a large amount of interest with over 750 bloggers applying to attend and over 9 million Google hits on the subject.
Monsignor Paul Tighe, a member of the Vatican's social communications office, said the Catholic Church is beginning to realize that its traditional means of communication are no longer sufficient.
“It's very much a first step, to meet with, to hear their concerns, to try to talk about some of the things we’re doing and see if people want to take it further or how they think it might be helpful to take the discussion further,” Tighe had said.
The Vatican has been seeking more and more to engage with the world online – for the beatification of Pope John Paul II, the Vatican instituted a special Facebook page, Twitter account, ran clips of his 27-year pontificate on its YouTube channel and let the faithful send electronic postcards to one another via its youth-based news portal about what they were experiencing.
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Megan Ward and Bryce Horsley smile after lighting the unity candle during their wedding at Sts. Philip and James Church in St. James, N.Y., in July. During the bishops' annual fall meeting in Baltimore, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., urged his fellow bishops Nov. 15 to look at today's challenges to traditional marriage as if they could saw the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade on the horizon before it was handed down in 1973. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) BELLEVUE, Wash. (CNS) -- Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of Oakland, Calif., urged his fellow bishops June 15 to fight back in the war of words over efforts to redefine traditional marriage.
The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage said organizations advocating the legal redefinition of marriage have been using words like "human rights" and "hate" in discussions of same-sex marriage.
"Strategies of language are crucial here, and what we see happening in the marriage debate with terms such as 'equality' is similar to the manipulation of language found in the pro-abortion rhetoric of 'choice,'" Bishop Cordileone said.
"Many of our young people have now come to see what 'pro-choice' really means, and embrace instead a culture of life," he added. "A similar task lies before us in our efforts to protect marriage."
As one weapon in the war of words, he cited the video series "Marriage: Unique for a Reason" that is being produced by the USCCB in English and Spanish. He announced completion of the second video in English, called "Made for Life," which focuses on the indispensable place of both mothers and fathers in the lives of their children.
"Our culture is one that often forgets the sacred gift of the child, and in so doing it also fails to recognize the vital importance of a mother and a father together for the life and upbringing of that child," Bishop Cordileone said. "In contemporary debates about the meaning of marriage, the rights and dignity of the child should be at the forefront."
Two other videos in English -- called "Made for the Common Good" and "Made for Freedom" -- will be completed in 2012, he said, and a Spanish-language, "telenovela"-style video is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
Bishop Cordileone said the final video, "Made for Freedom," will stress the important connection between marriage and religious liberty.
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