SCOTLAND
Clydebank Post
Published 4 Jun 2013
FORMER Clydebank priest Archbishop Philip Tartaglia recently told local Catholics “Don’t shoot the messenger just because you don’t like the message”.
He also urged his flock to become actively engaged in traditional and new media, from Facebook to Twitter to newspapers and television and stressed the importance of communications in the life of the Church – “and in our own everyday existence”.
He said Catholics had been “dismayed, hurt and embarrassed” to read headlines and hear news bulletins bringing shameful revelations about the Church in recent times.
He added: “We have experienced the power of the media, and sometimes felt under siege from the harsh glare of rolling news.”
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