Latin American Church confronts digital culture

New technologies, new languages, new friendships, new ways of sharing in a kind of virtual communion: the opportunities that the digital culture can provide for the Church are almost unlimited. But how is the Church in different parts of the world responding to the huge challenges of the digital era?
Here in the Vatican the Pontifical Council for Social Communications is at the cutting edge of this vital question, offering practical support and theological reflection for church leaders tackling the issue in their own local context. Archbishop Claudio Celli, president of that Council, heads off to the Chilean capital on Monday for a three day conference on this theme – ‘New horizons for the Church in the digital culture’. He told Philippa Hitchen more about the meeting which will include bishops and media experts from right across Latin America…

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