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The Church embraces the opportunities created by the new digital media. It will be necessary to provide education to staff in interactive communication standards, technology, platforms and catechetical modalities to participate in the culture of today's youth (the Digital Natives). The Church realizes this will require a shift in pedagogical thinking from the didactic to the conversational. Other strategies will be necessary to encourage and include the Boomer Generation in moving forward into that culture.

The challenge in open social communication media, where everyone's opinion is valid and it is expected that controversy is an integral part of the platform, is to establish and preserve the authoritative websites, such as The Vatican and USCCB, as the definitive reference sources for evangelical, catechetical and doctrinal communication.

The potential for dialogue with bloggers all over the world and evangelizing via social communications media worldwide out weighs the risk of possible misrepresentation of Church doctrine.

Dialoque is the best hope for interfaith communication and strengthening the faithful as well as catechesis of the Body of the Christ.