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'+'''Chapter 4: Evangelisation in a digital culture'''+' ''Chat-echesis'' Internet: a new forum for proclaiming the Gospel Digital natives Digital Immigrants Can we put a finger on the real difference? Comment on Chapter 4

-> "Catechesis is nothing other than the process of transmitting the Gospel, as the Christian community has received it, understands it, celebrates it, lives it and communicates it in many ways." (General Directory for Catechesis #105)

Typos are commonplace. The word that has come down in Christian tradition is 'catechesis', but you won't be left stranded, including on the Vatican web site (!) if you Google up chatechesis. When I found that on the Vatican website I wondered if the editor in that case might have reflected on the significance of his or her contribution to 'new evangelisation'! I doubt it, of course. 'Chatechesis' was clearly a typo, and the result of poor editing, as there were other typos on the same page.

Chat-echesis might not be such a bad idea, though. I would like, in this chapter, to tackle the considerable challenge that new evangelisation (the term comes from Pope John Paul II who was very much aware of the importance of ICTs, as we will see shortly) presents evangelisers, educators and for that matter formators in a digital culture.

We are in the habit, in one sense, of grabbing terms and flinging them about as if they are easily and univocally understood, without actually following through on where they came from, who coined them, why, what they said about them. I would like to offer two very different documents, both easily accessible on the Internet, with the suggestion that they be read and reflected on, and what follows will draw substantially from these two items.

Internet: a new forum for proclaiming the Gospel(:nl:)