(Vatican Radio) One of the new media projects making waves at World Youth Day in Rio
de Janeiro is ‘Magis’, a programme run by young Brazilian Jesuits in collaboration
with the innovative U.S. based website The Jesuit Post. The head of Vatican Radio’s
English Programme, Sean-Patrick Lovett, sat down with Fr Sam Sawyer, assistant editor
of The Jesuit Post, to find out the secret of its success and what it’s like to follow
the first Jesuit Pope in the history of the Church…..
Listen:
What we
try to do is connect faith and pop culture, faith and current events and what we're
trying to say through our website, facebook page and Twitter feed is that the world
looks bigger and more interesting through the eyes of faith, not smaller and more
constrained....
Through the lens of Jesuit formation, we recognise some of
(Pope Francis') ways of being attentive, in conversation with people....the authenticity
of the lived relationship with God which comes through so vibrantly.....that kind
of freedom is what we're called to as Jesuits and in Francis we see it in full flower....
There
seems to be a new hope and liveliness...that Francis is making life in the Church
interesting and believable again, there seems to be great engagement with that, great
hope...."