The Catholic Media Association

"Many challenges face the new evangelization in a world rich with communicative potential like our own" - Pope John Paul II

"The proclamation of life, life in abundance, must be the heart of the new evangelization.... Let us implore from God the grace of a new Pentecost." - Pope Benedict XVI

WELCOME to The Catholic Media Association
"New technologies for the New Evangelization" ™

In response to the message woven throughout the momentous visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States of America, Catholic Online has launched The Catholic Media Association (TCMA).

Welcome to your virtual home and to your community! As a communicator who extends your message and mission through the new media, The Catholic Media Association is now your means.

Communication is at the heart of the Christian Message and the media is the means of its mission. Placing communicative technologies at the service of the person, the family, the Church and the culture is our business and our passion. The use of every communications advance is integral to the "New Evangelization". We will be satisfied with nothing less.

With the convergence of all media and the ever-expanding role of the ever-new technologies, the pool of those who use the new media to communicate is rapidly expanding. We want to provide a home, a resource and a community for them all.

The old differentiation of media is over. Print, radio, TV, and the worldwide web are now being integrated with the newer technologies of video-casting, podcasting, blogging, and the world of social networking. The new media incorporates it all to form a united media for a unified message.

This is truly a new era of communication, and with this comes an even greater responsibility for the proper stewardship of these powerful tools in line with the vision and values of our Catholic Faith. "Technology" is not an "add on" to our communication or our community, it is an extension of the person, the family and our communities with no limitations.

In the words of the Servant of God John Paul II:

"The communication between God and humanity has thus reached its perfection in the Word made flesh. The act of love by which God reveals himself, united to the response of faith by humanity, generates a fruitful dialogue. Precisely for this reason, making our own in a certain sense the request of the disciples, "teach us to pray" (Lk11:1), we can ask the Lord to help us to understand how to communicate with God and with other human beings through the marvelous communications media. In light of so decisive and definitive a communication, the media provide a providential opportunity to reach people everywhere, overcoming barriers of time, of space and of language; presenting the content of faith in the most varied ways imaginable; and offering to all who search the possibility of entering into dialogue with the mystery of God, revealed fully in Christ Jesus."

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