Marcin Bogdan:Do you request Catholic media?

To effort to answer the question set out in the title, imagine this situation. The Catholic returns after the Holy Mass from the church to his home, plunges into reading the Wyborcza Newspaper, watches passionately TVN TV, and in search of information about current events he looks on the computer or telephone on the Onet portal. And he believes uncritically, and if not, in what he has read and heard. More, he treats it as “the revealed truth.”

Is this a hard situation to imagine? Unfortunately, it's not difficult, just look around you. Although the question arises, how can specified a individual reconcile the values he wants to direct as a Catholic, with the anti-values promoted by the aforementioned media. But I don't want to get into the psyche of these people, I don't want to justice them. I want to ask the question why this is happening, what does it come from? possibly this is due to the deficiency of Catholic media in the Polish market? possibly supply does not satisfy request in this marketplace sector? I besides want to put a second, equally important, or possibly even more crucial question. The question of the consequences of this kind of situation. I'll call on the PRL period. Many families raised their children in a spiritual and patriotic spirit. However, at school, children collided with a different reality, frequently receiving a message completely different from their home upbringing. I don't generalise the situation, there were honest and courageous teachers in the PRL, but in most cases there was specified cognitive dissonance. The problem was further exacerbated by the fact that children, and especially young people, spent more time at school than at home with their parents, trying to make ends meet in an Augustine communist reality.

The situation is akin with modern Catholics utilizing mass media from left-wing liberals. The average, better can compose a statistical Catholic, attend the Holy Mass erstwhile a week, on Sunday. A large part of the Mass is attending the Eucharist, listening to the Gospel and explaining it to the homily is not more than 20 minutes on average. 20 minutes a week. And the message of these 20 minutes is then confronted with hours, with tens of hours of media narration, most frequently completely contrary to Christian values. The rhetorical question can be asked here, what will prevail? Weight of value or weight of quantity?

Therefore, that is why Catholic media is needed, and not any niche but dominant media market. And I'm not reasoning of a purely religious, prayerful message, though it is necessary. On the question of the Apostle Thomas: «Sir, we don't know where you're going. So how do we know the way?» Jesus answered: «I am the way and the fact and the life. No 1 comes to the Father but through me.» [Jan 14,5-6]. Jesus is the way and truth, the designation of fact is the way to Jesus, to God the Father and to salvation. Modern liberal media frequently do not negate the Gospel but reinterpret it, indicate a false direction, alternatively of the truth, to lie. Therefore, the function of Catholic media must not be reduced to spiritual evangelization. The function of Catholic media is to search truth, both in the Community, social and political dimensions. For that is not why man is to search salvation, to know the truth, but to find the way to salvation by discovering the truth.

Catholic media should not be just a tube of the last Sunday’s proclamation of the Gospel, or even the Gospels of each regular day, from Monday to Saturday. Catholic media must support priests in encouraging people to search the truth, in setting paths for truth. Priests, especially those serving alone in smaller parishes, are alone in their shepherding, on the another hand they are exposed to force from believers steeped in leftist-liberal media narratives. any time ago, 1 of the priests during the sermon said that he could not talk critically of abortion due to the fact that it was a problem concerning a large group of practicing Catholics. On this example we can see how much Catholic media is needed, in the format I indicated above. due to the fact that is abortion a substance of faith? Is this what religion determines erstwhile human life begins? Or do superstitions decide that? No, it's not a substance of faith, it's a substance of technological knowledge. Recently, the website "Solidarni2010" published a shocking text by Mrs. Anna Nowak from the Life and household Foundation entitled "Research has shown that a kid in the womb "crys" with pain during the injection":

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The author describes studies in Brazil, where unborn children were observed and recorded in consequence to pain associated with injections given to children. Their faces curved, the children wide open their mouths in a long, silent scream. They were suffering. They suffered the same way as a born man, whether a kid or an adult, suffers. There is no religion in this text, not erstwhile does the word religion fall. Speech is only about hard evidence from research. So can the media publishing specified texts be called Catholic? Yes, the media that print real information that follows the fact in their media message should be considered Catholic media.

Catholic media, or media publishing real information, support the message from the Gospel. The existence of God is an component of faith. fact is the way to God, but in itself it is not an component of faith. The message "I do not believe in the truth" is an axiological absurd. Just due to the fact that individual denies the truth, lies the truth, just due to the fact that individual fights the fact doesn't mean that the fact as specified is an component of faith. The title question of whether Catholic media is needed can be replaced by another question. The question is, is there a request for truth? possibly the fact should ask for asylum in church walls, and social and political life is dominated by media spreading fake news and lies? Should a Catholic search asylum in the Church, or should he support Catholic media?

Mr Bogdan

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