Rola katolickich środków społecznego przekazu w budzeniu zaangażowania w życiu publicznym

Abstract

Establishing and developing Catholics’ own media is one of the priority tasks for the Church. Catholic media serve the work of evangelization, and through reliable information and its interpretation, dialog and formation of the public opinion they contribute to encouraging participation in public life. In Poland there is considerable pluralism of Catholic media; however, it seems that the most interesting initiatives in the area of Catholic media include: the Catholic Information Agency (KAI), the foundation ‘Opoka’ (‘Bedrock’) and Radio ‘Maryja’ and the media circles connected with it. Since for media there are no borders and barriers, they reach both the faithful and the atheists. They help active Catholics to interpret reality properly and to ground their views; they may make ‘lukewarm’ Catholics realize their position better; and they force atheists to reflect on reality and persuade them to judiciously and critically participate in changing the earthly reality.