{"id":641104,"date":"2010-01-24T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=11444"},"modified":"2010-01-24T08:51:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T13:51:02","slug":"for-god%e2%80%99s-sake-blog-pope-tells-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/641104","title":{"rendered":"For God\u2019s sake, blog!, pope tells priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"articleText\"><span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11445\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 360px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11445\" title=\"pope media\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/01\/pope-media-350x215-custom.jpg?resize=350%2C215\" alt=\"pope media\" width=\"350\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vatican and new media on pope2you.net, 22 May 2009\/Jonathan Bainbridge <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For God&#8217;s sake, blog! Pope Benedict has told priests, saying they must learn to use new forms of communication to spread the gospel message.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In his message for the Roman Catholic Church&#8217;s World Day of Communications on Saturday, the pope, who is 82 and known not to love computers or the internet, acknowledged priests must make the most of the <em>&#8220;rich menu of options&#8221;<\/em> offered by new technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;Priests are thus challenged to proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources &#8212; images, videos, animated features, blogs, websites &#8212; which, alongside traditional means, can open up broad new vistas for dialogue, evangelization and catechesis,&#8221;<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE60M15A20100123\">Read the whole story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at RTRFaithWorld<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican and new media on pope2you.net, 22 May 2009\/Jonathan Bainbridge For God&#8217;s sake, blog! Pope Benedict has told priests, saying they must learn to use new forms of communication to spread the gospel message. In his message for the Roman Catholic Church&#8217;s World Day of Communications on Saturday, the pope, who is 82 and known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2340,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GMo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}