Use new media to touch people's hearts: Pope

If Catholic communicators are to use new media effectively, they must use it in ways that touch people’s hearts and draw them to living faith communities, Pope Benedict XVI said in a message for the annual meeting of the Catholic Press Association taking place in New Orleans. The 2010 meeting is focusing on the theme “Spreading the Good News – Byte by Byte,” which “highlights the extraordinary potential of the new media to bring the message of Christ and the teaching of His Church to the attention of a wider public,” the Pope said.