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  1 Message,1|               upon the housetops" (Mt 10:27). In the secret of our
  2 Message,3|           preach the Gospel" (1 Cor 9:16).    ~Yet, as much as the
  3 Message,2|                                       2. In all cultures and at
  4 Message,2|            calling" (Gaudium et spes, 22). Therefore, the voice of
  5 Message,4|               8).  ~From the Vatican, 24 January 2001, the memorial
  6 Message,1|            upon the housetops" (Mt 10:27). In the secret of our heart,
  7 Message,3|                                       3. The world of the media
  8 Message,4|             Ethics in Communications, 31). Above all, they have the
  9 Message,4|               cf. Redemptoris missio, 33). Certainly, an effective
 10 Message,4|                                       4. It is vital too that at
 11 Message,2|              are searching (cf. Mt 13:45-46).  ~It follows that the
 12 Message,2|               searching (cf. Mt 13:45-46).  ~It follows that the
 13 Message,4|               and for ever (cf Heb 13:8).  ~From the Vatican, 24
 14 Message,3|             preach the Gospel" (1 Cor 9:16).    ~Yet, as much as
 15          | Above
 16 Message,2|          making the truth more widely accessible to many more people. The
 17 Message,3|              needed in our time is an active and imaginative engagement
 18          | actually
 19 Message,4|              keep in mind the mission ad gentes which Christ has
 20 Message,3|               Catholics should not be afraid to throw open the doors
 21          | after
 22          | against
 23          | alone
 24          | also
 25          | always
 26 Message,2|       intricate, and this is a deeply ambivalent phenomenon. On the one hand,
 27 Message,4|           them live in countries with ancient Christian roots, where entire
 28 Message,2|             one ultimately satisfying answer to the deepest questions
 29 Message,1|            forest of transmitters and antennae sending and receiving messages
 30          | any
 31 Message,3|           than the pagan world of the Apostles' day. But just as the early
 32 Message,3|   entertaining, the temptation to set aside considerations of truth
 33 Message,2|              transformations - people ask the same basic questions
 34 Message,4|               is in fact an important aspect of the inculturation of
 35 Message,4|            where entire groups of the baptized have lost a living sense
 36 Message,3|               and teaching beyond all barriers and frontiers. Such a wide
 37 Message,2| transformations - people ask the same basic questions about the meaning
 38          | because
 39          | becomes
 40          | been
 41          | before
 42          | beginning
 43 Message,4|             thirds of the world's six billion people do not in any real
 44 Message,2|               On the one hand, it can blur the distinction between
 45 Message,4|              truth of Jesus ever more boldly and joyfully from the housetops,
 46 Message,4|          direct evangelization and in bringing to people the truths and
 47 Message,2|            reveals man to himself and brings to light his high calling" (
 48 Message,2|           more deeply involved in the burgeoning world of communications.
 49 Message,4|            seeks to heed the Spirit's call, Christian communicators
 50 Message,2|              brings to light his high calling" (Gaudium et spes, 22).
 51 Message,3|             audience, or the positive capacities of the Internet to carry
 52 Message,3|         capacities of the Internet to carry religious information and
 53 Message,3|      satellite telecasts of religious ceremonies which often reach a global
 54 Message,4|               in striving to meet the challenge Christians cannot possibly
 55 Message,1|                The theme which I have chosen for World Communications
 56 Message,2|                Who am I? Where have I come from and where am I going?
 57 Message  |           Gospel in the Age of Global Communication ~
 58 Message,4|              Spirit's call, Christian communicators have "a prophetic task,
 59 Message,2|            extending and growing more complex by the day, and the media
 60 Message,3|               temptation to set aside considerations of truth becomes almost
 61 Message,4|                materialism, hedonism, consumerism, narrow nationalism..." (
 62 Message,3|             not preach the Gospel" (1 Cor 9:16).    ~Yet, as much
 63 Message,1|             kind to and from the four corners of the earth. It is vitally
 64          | could
 65 Message,4|              and many of them live in countries with ancient Christian roots,
 66 Message,3|            followers do so today. The cry of Saint Paul echoes among
 67 Message,2|                             2. In all cultures and at all times - certainly
 68 Message,1|                What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and
 69 Message,4|             memorial of Saint Francis de Sales.  ~JOANNES PAULUS
 70 Message,4|             the duty and privilege to declare the truth - the glorious
 71 Message,2|              satisfying answer to the deepest questions of the human heart -
 72 Message,4|           inculturation of the Gospel demanded by the new evangelization
 73 Message,4|            about human life and human destiny revealed in the Word made
 74          | did
 75 Message,4|             support and enhance human dignity. The Church's presence in
 76 Message,4|             play an essential role in direct evangelization and in bringing
 77 Message,1|       remember his words to his first disciples: "What I tell you in the
 78 Message,2|             one hand, it can blur the distinction between truth and illusion;
 79 Message,3|              afraid to throw open the doors of social communications
 80 Message,4|              Above all, they have the duty and privilege to declare
 81 Message,1|               word in and through the dynamic world of communications.   ~
 82 Message,3|        Apostles' day. But just as the early witnesses to the Good News
 83 Message,1|               the four corners of the earth. It is vitally important
 84 Message,2|               an increasingly visible effect on culture and its transmission.
 85 Message,4|            missio, 33). Certainly, an effective response to this situation
 86 Message,3|             an active and imaginative engagement of the media by the Church.
 87 Message,4|              values which support and enhance human dignity. The Church'
 88 Message,3|            something is newsworthy or entertaining, the temptation to set aside
 89 Message,4|        ancient Christian roots, where entire groups of the baptized have
 90 Message,3|              seem no more friendly an environment for evangelization than
 91 Message,4|             of every kind can play an essential role in direct evangelization
 92 Message,4|           entrusted to the Church. An estimated two thirds of the world'
 93 Message,4|               narrow nationalism..." (Ethics in Communications, 31).
 94          | even
 95 Message,2|              am I going? Why is there evil? What is there after this
 96 Message,2|             communications network is extending and growing more complex
 97 Message,3|             News did not retreat when faced with opposition, neither
 98 Message,4|           presence in the media is in fact an important aspect of the
 99 Message,2|        follows that the Church cannot fail to be ever more deeply involved
100 Message,2|               of Christians can never fall silent, for the Lord has
101 Message,4|              to speak out against the false gods and idols of the day -
102 Message,3|             Christ to the whole human family. Consider, for instance,
103 Message,4|             the Church and live lives far removed from the Lord and
104 Message,2|            there after this life?(cf. Fides et Ratio, 1).And in every
105          | first
106 Message,4|             revealed in the Word made flesh. May Catholics involved
107 Message,3|               neither should Christ's followers do so today. The cry of
108 Message,2|                cf. Mt 13:45-46).  ~It follows that the Church cannot fail
109 Message,1|             almost always marked by a forest of transmitters and antennae
110 Message,1|            every kind to and from the four corners of the earth. It
111 Message,4|           2001, the memorial of Saint Francis de Sales.  ~JOANNES PAULUS
112 Message,3|            can sometimes seem no more friendly an environment for evangelization
113 Message,3|               beyond all barriers and frontiers. Such a wide audience would
114 Message,2|            Jesus Christ himself, "who fully reveals man to himself and
115 Message,2|              light his high calling" (Gaudium et spes, 22). Therefore,
116 Message,4|           keep in mind the mission ad gentes which Christ has entrusted
117 Message,4|               declare the truth - the glorious truth about human life and
118 Message,4|           speak out against the false gods and idols of the day - materialism,
119 Message,2|              come from and where am I going? Why is there evil? What
120 Message,2|            Gospel offers the pearl of great price for which all are
121 Message,4|         Christian roots, where entire groups of the baptized have lost
122 Message,2|              network is extending and growing more complex by the day,
123 Message,2|             reality and the media has grown more intricate, and this
124 Message,2|     ambivalent phenomenon. On the one hand, it can blur the distinction
125 Message,2|             the latter which actually happens.  ~
126 Message,2|            the day, and the media are having an increasingly visible
127 Message,4|               today, and for ever (cf Heb 13:8).  ~From the Vatican,
128 Message,4|             of the day - materialism, hedonism, consumerism, narrow nationalism..." (
129 Message,4|             the whole Church seeks to heed the Spirit's call, Christian
130 Message,2|               and brings to light his high calling" (Gaudium et spes,
131 Message,4|           evangelization to which the Holy Spirit is summoning the
132 Message,3|             seem indifferent and even hostile to Christian faith and morality.
133 Message,4|            against the false gods and idols of the day - materialism,
134 Message,4|            Christians cannot possibly ignore the world of social communications.
135 Message,4|               Sales.  ~JOANNES PAULUS II~ ~
136 Message,2|         distinction between truth and illusion; but on the other, it can
137 Message,3|             our time is an active and imaginative engagement of the media
138 Message,3|               been beyond the wildest imaginings of those who preached the
139 Message,3|            media culture is so deeply imbued with a typically postmodern
140 Message,3|             there were, they would be inaccessible to human reason and therefore
141 Message,2|               the media are having an increasingly visible effect on culture
142 Message,4|               important aspect of the inculturation of the Gospel demanded by
143          | Indeed
144 Message,3|              media can sometimes seem indifferent and even hostile to Christian
145 Message,3|           Internet to carry religious information and teaching beyond all
146 Message,3|           human family. Consider, for instance, satellite telecasts of
147 Message,3|            positive capacities of the Internet to carry religious information
148 Message,2|              the media has grown more intricate, and this is a deeply ambivalent
149 Message,4|            response to this situation involves much more than the media;
150 Message,3|            human reason and therefore irrelevant. In such a view, what matters
151 Message,3|               of truth becomes almost irresistible. As a result, the world
152          | its
153 Message,4|                  From the Vatican, 24 January 2001, the memorial of Saint
154 Message,4|             Saint Francis de Sales.  ~JOANNES PAULUS II~ ~
155 Message,4|            Jesus ever more boldly and joyfully from the housetops, so that
156 Message,3|             of the Apostles' day. But just as the early witnesses to
157 Message,4|             of this new millennium we keep in mind the mission ad gentes
158 Message,4|              do not in any real sense know Jesus Christ; and many of
159          | latter
160 Message,1|          secret of our heart, we have listened to the truth of Jesus; now
161 Message,4|        members of the Church and live lives far removed from the Lord
162 Message,4|              the baptized have lost a living sense of the faith, or no
163 Message,4|             sense of the faith, or no longer consider themselves members
164 Message,2|               which every human heart longs. The Gospel offers the pearl
165 Message,4|           groups of the baptized have lost a living sense of the faith,
166 Message,4|              women may hear about the love which is the heart of God'
167          | made
168 Message,2|       unprecedented opportunities for making the truth more widely accessible
169 Message,2|           himself, "who fully reveals man to himself and brings to
170 Message,1|           housetops are almost always marked by a forest of transmitters
171 Message,4|           gods and idols of the day - materialism, hedonism, consumerism,
172 Message,3|      irrelevant. In such a view, what matters is not the truth but "the
173          | me
174 Message,2|             basic questions about the meaning of life: Who am I? Where
175 Message,1|              from the housetops today means to speak Jesus' word in
176 Message,4|            longer consider themselves members of the Church and live lives
177 Message,4|         Vatican, 24 January 2001, the memorial of Saint Francis de Sales.  ~
178 Message,4|            the housetops, so that all men and women may hear about
179 Message,3|               odds with the Christian message, it also offers unique opportunities
180 Message,2|              times - certainly in the midst of today's global transformations -
181 Message,4|             the beginning of this new millennium we keep in mind the mission
182 Message,4|             new millennium we keep in mind the mission ad gentes which
183 Message,4|               Gospel (cf. Redemptoris missio, 33). Certainly, an effective
184 Message,4|        millennium we keep in mind the mission ad gentes which Christ has
185 Message,3|        hostile to Christian faith and morality. This is partly because
186          | must
187 Message,4|                hedonism, consumerism, narrow nationalism..." (Ethics
188 Message,4|         hedonism, consumerism, narrow nationalism..." (Ethics in Communications,
189 Message,3|          before us. What is therefore needed in our time is an active
190          | neither
191 Message,2|             The global communications network is extending and growing
192          | never
193 Message,3|               story"; if something is newsworthy or entertaining, the temptation
194 Message,3|            media may at times seem at odds with the Christian message,
195          | once
196          | only
197 Message,3|               retreat when faced with opposition, neither should Christ's
198          | other
199          | otherwise
200          | out
201 Message,3|               evangelization than the pagan world of the Apostles' day.
202 Message,3|           faith and morality. This is partly because media culture is
203 Message,3|               today. The cry of Saint Paul echoes among us still: "
204 Message,4|           Francis de Sales.  ~JOANNES PAULUS II~ ~
205 Message,2|          longs. The Gospel offers the pearl of great price for which
206 Message,2|           this is a deeply ambivalent phenomenon. On the one hand, it can
207 Message,4|               media of every kind can play an essential role in direct
208 Message,3|               global audience, or the positive capacities of the Internet
209 Message,4|           challenge Christians cannot possibly ignore the world of social
210 Message,3|               imbued with a typically postmodern sense that the only absolute
211 Message,3|               imaginings of those who preached the Gospel before us. What
212 Message,4|           human dignity. The Church's presence in the media is in fact
213 Message,2|             offers the pearl of great price for which all are searching (
214 Message,4|                they have the duty and privilege to declare the truth - the
215 Message,3|              unique opportunities for proclaiming the saving truth of Christ
216 Message,4|       Christian communicators have "a prophetic task, a vocation: to speak
217 Message,2|               this life?(cf. Fides et Ratio, 1).And in every age the
218 Message,3|      religious ceremonies which often reach a global audience, or the
219 Message,4|          billion people do not in any real sense know Jesus Christ;
220 Message,2|              the relationship between reality and the media has grown
221 Message,3|              be inaccessible to human reason and therefore irrelevant.
222 Message,1|              and antennae sending and receiving messages of every kind to
223 Message,4|              Lord and his Gospel (cf. Redemptoris missio, 33). Certainly,
224 Message,2|               of the media. Thus, the relationship between reality and the
225 Message,1|              alone whom we preach. We remember his words to his first disciples: "
226 Message,4|             Church and live lives far removed from the Lord and his Gospel (
227 Message,2|    transmission. Where once the media reported events, now events are often
228 Message,2|              often shaped to meet the requirements of the media. Thus, the
229 Message,4|               Certainly, an effective response to this situation involves
230 Message,3|             almost irresistible. As a result, the world of the media
231 Message,3|              to the Good News did not retreat when faced with opposition,
232 Message,4|          human life and human destiny revealed in the Word made flesh.
233 Message,2|            Christ himself, "who fully reveals man to himself and brings
234 Message,4|            kind can play an essential role in direct evangelization
235 Message,4|      countries with ancient Christian roots, where entire groups of
236 Message,4|          memorial of Saint Francis de Sales.  ~JOANNES PAULUS II~ ~
237 Message,2|           entrusted to us the word of salvation for which every human heart
238 Message,3|               Consider, for instance, satellite telecasts of religious ceremonies
239 Message,2|             offers the one ultimately satisfying answer to the deepest questions
240 Message,3|     opportunities for proclaiming the saving truth of Christ to the whole
241 Message,2|               price for which all are searching (cf. Mt 13:45-46).  ~It
242 Message,1|         housetops" (Mt 10:27). In the secret of our heart, we have listened
243 Message,4|                   As the whole Church seeks to heed the Spirit's call,
244 Message,4|           which is the heart of God's self-communication in Jesus Christ, the same
245 Message,1|             transmitters and antennae sending and receiving messages of
246 Message,3|       entertaining, the temptation to set aside considerations of
247 Message,2|          events, now events are often shaped to meet the requirements
248 Message,2|             Christians can never fall silent, for the Lord has entrusted
249 Message,4|            effective response to this situation involves much more than
250 Message,4|             two thirds of the world's six billion people do not in
251          | something
252 Message,2|             high calling" (Gaudium et spes, 22). Therefore, the voice
253          | still
254 Message,3|             is not the truth but "the story"; if something is newsworthy
255 Message,4|           more than the media; but in striving to meet the challenge Christians
256 Message,4|              which the Holy Spirit is summoning the Church throughout the
257 Message,4|               truths and values which support and enhance human dignity.
258 Message,3|             religious information and teaching beyond all barriers and
259 Message,3|               for instance, satellite telecasts of religious ceremonies
260 Message,1|              first disciples: "What I tell you in the dark, utter in
261 Message,3|       newsworthy or entertaining, the temptation to set aside considerations
262          | them
263          | themselves
264          | these
265 Message,4|              Church. An estimated two thirds of the world's six billion
266          | those
267          | through
268          | throughout
269 Message,3|               should not be afraid to throw open the doors of social
270          | Thus
271 Message,3|               therefore needed in our time is an active and imaginative
272          | too
273 Message,2|               midst of today's global transformations - people ask the same basic
274 Message,2|             effect on culture and its transmission. Where once the media reported
275 Message,1|          always marked by a forest of transmitters and antennae sending and
276 Message,4|              the Church. An estimated two thirds of the world's six
277 Message,3|               so deeply imbued with a typically postmodern sense that the
278 Message,2|             the Church offers the one ultimately satisfying answer to the
279 Message,3|               message, it also offers unique opportunities for proclaiming
280 Message,2|             the other, it can open up unprecedented opportunities for making
281          | up
282          | upon
283 Message,1|               I tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and what you
284 Message,4|              to people the truths and values which support and enhance
285 Message,4|              cf Heb 13:8).  ~From the Vatican, 24 January 2001, the memorial
286 Message,3|       therefore irrelevant. In such a view, what matters is not the
287 Message,2|            are having an increasingly visible effect on culture and its
288 Message,4|                              4. It is vital too that at the beginning
289 Message,1|           corners of the earth. It is vitally important to ensure that
290 Message,4|             have "a prophetic task, a vocation: to speak out against the
291 Message,2|             spes, 22). Therefore, the voice of Christians can never
292          | were
293          | when
294 Message,1|              light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim upon the housetops" (
295          | whom
296          | Why
297 Message,3|        barriers and frontiers. Such a wide audience would have been
298 Message,2|             for making the truth more widely accessible to many more
299 Message,3|            would have been beyond the wildest imaginings of those who
300 Message,3|            day. But just as the early witnesses to the Good News did not
301 Message,3|               echoes among us still: "Woe to me if I do not preach
302 Message,4|        housetops, so that all men and women may hear about the love
303 Message,4|             in Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and for ever (
304          | Yet