Church and the media
CHURCH AND THE MEDIA Cl. Mario D’Couto SDB When I think about the Church and the media, what comes to my mind are two worlds coming in contact with each other and if we go to see their history, we can trace back a long route, from being just one simple entity to a complex organization. Today when people speak about the media, what normally comes on the surface are things like ‘Facebook’, ‘Twitter’, ‘Wassup’ and so on. But to narrow down the word ‘media’ to just these few things would be restricting its scope and horizon. Rather, when understood from a broader context, the word ‘media’ actually means ‘to communicate’ and for me, this is what encapsulates all other things such as facebook, twitter and so on. The Church, too, as mentioned before has grown from being a simple unit to a complex organization. But more than just, the Church is the Br...