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Evangelii Nuntiandi, Chapter IV
The Methods of Evangelization
nos. 45, Use of the Mass Media
This number says that, since this is “the age of the mass media,” the Church must make use of these media. “The Church would stand guilty before the Lord if she did not use these powerful instruments.” They are like a new pulpit from which the Good News can be preached.
EWTN Global Catholic Network is a good example of the use of mass media by the Catholic Church. It is the largest religious media network in the world. It has a television department, an AM and FM radio department, and a short wave department.
In the television department it has direct broadcast of satellite television. It has an English, a Spanish, a German and a French division. Over 6,000 television affiliates carry its programs. Its platforms include ROKU, Apple TV and Amazon Fire. Eleven networks carry programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to over 300 million households in more than 145 countries and territories.
In the AM and FM radio department, programming is transmitted through over 500 domestic and international AM and FM radio affiliates. The Spanish division has thirty affiliates in the USA and 127 throughout Latin America.
In the shortwave department it has three continental transmitters that transmit programming primarily to the Caribbean, Central and South America. It also sends to African nations.
In addition to all this, EWTN has the largest Catholic website in the USA and an electronic and print service, including the National Catholic Register newspaper (information from the official EWTN website).
Another example of Catholic use of the mass media to preach the Gospel is the Catholic TV Network, based in Watertown, MA. It is owned by the archdiocese of Boston and was started already in 1955. It is distributed on cable television, internet television and broadcast stations in sixteen US states and the US Virgin Islands. Its website is CatholicTV.com (from Wikipedia).
These are two examples of the use of the social media for preaching the Good News. They are both Catholic institutions. Catholic TV is owned by the Church. EWTN is not owned by the Church but its stated mission is to present the teaching of the Catholic Church as it is promulgated by the pope and the magisterium of the Catholic Church.
Both of these stations provide opportunities for the initial preaching of the Gospel and for catechesis, as this number wishes. They and all the other Catholic television and radio stations, as well as Catholic blogs and other means of communication, help to realize what this no. 45 of Evangelii Nuntiandi visualizes for these media: “With their aid she [the Church] can preach ‘from the housetops’ the message entrusted to her.”
There is a challenge to using the social media for evangelization. It is to make it more and more personal so that the individual will feel as if the message were meant only for him or her.
O Mary, conceived without original sin, pray for us.
The Methods of Evangelization
nos. 45, Use of the Mass Media
This number says that, since this is “the age of the mass media,” the Church must make use of these media. “The Church would stand guilty before the Lord if she did not use these powerful instruments.” They are like a new pulpit from which the Good News can be preached.
EWTN Global Catholic Network is a good example of the use of mass media by the Catholic Church. It is the largest religious media network in the world. It has a television department, an AM and FM radio department, and a short wave department.
In the television department it has direct broadcast of satellite television. It has an English, a Spanish, a German and a French division. Over 6,000 television affiliates carry its programs. Its platforms include ROKU, Apple TV and Amazon Fire. Eleven networks carry programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to over 300 million households in more than 145 countries and territories.
In the AM and FM radio department, programming is transmitted through over 500 domestic and international AM and FM radio affiliates. The Spanish division has thirty affiliates in the USA and 127 throughout Latin America.
In the shortwave department it has three continental transmitters that transmit programming primarily to the Caribbean, Central and South America. It also sends to African nations.
In addition to all this, EWTN has the largest Catholic website in the USA and an electronic and print service, including the National Catholic Register newspaper (information from the official EWTN website).
Another example of Catholic use of the mass media to preach the Gospel is the Catholic TV Network, based in Watertown, MA. It is owned by the archdiocese of Boston and was started already in 1955. It is distributed on cable television, internet television and broadcast stations in sixteen US states and the US Virgin Islands. Its website is CatholicTV.com (from Wikipedia).
These are two examples of the use of the social media for preaching the Good News. They are both Catholic institutions. Catholic TV is owned by the Church. EWTN is not owned by the Church but its stated mission is to present the teaching of the Catholic Church as it is promulgated by the pope and the magisterium of the Catholic Church.
Both of these stations provide opportunities for the initial preaching of the Gospel and for catechesis, as this number wishes. They and all the other Catholic television and radio stations, as well as Catholic blogs and other means of communication, help to realize what this no. 45 of Evangelii Nuntiandi visualizes for these media: “With their aid she [the Church] can preach ‘from the housetops’ the message entrusted to her.”
There is a challenge to using the social media for evangelization. It is to make it more and more personal so that the individual will feel as if the message were meant only for him or her.
O Mary, conceived without original sin, pray for us.