Transforming Parish Communications by Scot Landry

Transforming Parish Communications by Scot Landry

Are we still a Church capable of warming hearts? A Church capable of leading people back to Jerusalem? Of bringing them home? - Pope Francis, Meeting with the Bishops of Brazil, 28 July 2013.

Pope Francis, like his predecessors Benedict XVI and John Paul I, is calling for Catholics to embrace the new evangelization. But there has been ongoing confusion about who is responsible, what it really means and what it looks like in practical application. How can we respond to the Holy Father's call, creating evangelization opportunities that help bring people back to the Church?

By transforming Catholics into digital missionaries - ready and able to take the joy and warmth of the Gospel online via social media to infrequent, inactive, or ex-Catholics around the corner or across the globe.

Consider this:

1. Nearly every lost Catholic in the U.S. is most likely connected with at least one engaged Catholic - or is one retweet or like away from them

2. On the whole, Catholics have not been taught to see social media as a way to live out their faith

3. Motivating parishes to put a priority on evangelization has been a challenge

4. Catholics are more likely to be comfortable as digital missionaries than to participate in other forms of evangelization

5. Parishes can offer digital missionary training to parishioners - who would welcome it!

In Transforming Parish Communications: Growing the Church Through New Media, you'll discover: How to embrace the Church's vision of evangelization in new mediaHow entire parishes can become hubs of digital evangelization - and how to overcome obstaclesSpecific strategies for implementationHow to create a consistent digital identity onlineBest practices for parish websitesThe nuts and bolts of Facebook, Twitter, email, blogging and more

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ISBN 13	9781612787244
ISBN 10	161278724X
Title	Transforming Parish Communications
Author	Scot Landry
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Our Sunday Visitor Inc.,U.S.
Year published	2013-10-01
Number of pages	208
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