The mission of communicating the Word of God through the media is not a reserve of professional journalists and media practitioners, one of the speakers at the January 22-23 Global jubilee conference with Religious Sisters at the Vatican has said.
In an interview with ACI Africa in Rome, Sr. Paola Moggi of the Comboni Missionary Sisters (CMS) emphasized the natural link between communication and human life.
Sr. Paola Moggi
Communication in the Church, Sr. Paola said, “is not something for specialists.”
“If we do not communicate, then life withers … It is something that everybody should take at heart,” she said in a bid to underscore the need for all members of the Church to embrace and engage the means of communication to spread the Gospel message.
The engaging of the technical aspects of the media, whether traditional or digital, including Artificial intelligence is “our own vocation” and for that, “we need to discern,” the CMS member currently involved in the setting up an Institute of Communication and Media at the Catholic University of South Sudan (CUSS) told ACI Africa during the January 23 interview. “Communication is not a technique; it’s life,” she reiterated and explained, “It means that each one of us has a vocation, not only as Christians or as Religious women or men, but as Paola or as you. And listening to ourselves will help us to identify which talents God has given us to be more flourishing in certain areas.”
“Certain technical areas of the media, like social media, artificial intelligence, may not be for everybody. But for those who have the vocation for this, it is their evangelization task. Others may be more on the listening side of the mentorship, of spiritual direction; this is their vocation,” she further said.
source: aciafrica.org
