From Spain has come the proposal that every parish should be equipped with a room dedicated to “creative communication”, a room where the faithful could use the new technologies (computers, Internet, videos, mp3) and “evangelise in cyberspace”: the idea is the brainchild of the young auxiliary bishop of a diocese in northern Spain, Oviedo, Monsignor Raúl Berzosa, who suggests that parishes should make available “rooms for creative communication as he explained to the local paper La Voce delle Asturie because the Church must adapt to the times to spread the Gospel”. Parish communication rooms ought, he says, to have “computers where electronic post and online opinion blogs could be consulted”. They should also contain “places to see films and design a parish website”. The young bishop, an old hand at surfing the Internet, listening to music with mp3 and defending the new technologies, thinks that “catechists too should use them”. Raúl Berzosa, who was a professor of theology for years and is well known for his books, says that “cyberspace is a new horizon for evangelization”. Meanwhile, in the course of a recent meeting on “Communicating hope” (see below), promoted in Italy by the local Bishops’ Conference, it was announced that the document of the Italian bishops on “Communication and Mission” has been translated into Spanish by the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, which used not only the same text but also the same graphic layout.
