Um padre na aldeia global

: nova evangelização e novas Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação

Abstract

In this dissertation, we revise the last hundred years of pronouncements by the successors of Peter, from Pope Leo XIII to Pope Benedict XVI, testifying the attention and interest with which the Catholic Church has always looked at the potential offered by new technologies of information and communication. From a communicational standpoint, we reaffirm the challenge of the urgency of New Evangelization put forward by Pope John Paul II, following the indications of Pope Paul VI and the Vatican Council II. We base our reflection on selected authors from a variety of possibilities, namely the theories of McQuail, Castells, Baudrillard and McLuhan. We present a chronological analysis of the matter, from the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Internet Galaxy. In summary, we explore the conclusion that points out that the net of the network society we live in nowadays, where we surf the galaxy of the Internet, is largely the same net in which we have always lived, where Jesus of Nazareth has challenged us to believe in a miraculous catch... so let us cast the nets again... and so we did.

Date of Award	Oct 2012
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Fernando Ilharco (Supervisor)