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“Podcasting, already a popular innovation at Vatican Radio, offers an important new way for pastors to reach contemporary Christians through their digital jukeboxes, an influential Jesuit magazine said,” says the Catholic News Service, going on:

“The church should not pass up the opportunity to make liturgies and prayers available via podcast, as well as downloadable sermons by ‘podpreachers,’ said the magazine, La Civilta Cattolica, in its Nov. 5 issue.

Now there’s a genre called Godcasting which, “refers to efforts by churches, preachers and religious media to tap into the digital communications boom,” says the story, .”so it was no surprise that Vatican Radio began offering podcasting in July, the Jesuit magazine said.

“The response was overwhelming, it said; the highest number of downloads so far has been for Pope Benedict XVI’s interview with the radio in August.”

Podcasting should be examined with “extreme attention” by church communicators and seems to offer a real pastoral opportunity, says the Catholic News Service, quoting La Civilta Cattolica.

A 2002 document of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications said, ‘hanging back timidly from fear of technology or for some other reason is not acceptable, in view of the very many positive possibilities of the Internet’,” adds the story.

See:-
Catholic News Service - Podcasting could be important pastoral tool, says Jesuit magazine, November 8, 2005

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