Martin Jumbam

“Master the digital media to spread the Gospel,” the Holy Father challenges priests.

Over forty years ago, in May 1967, the Servant of God, Pope Paul VI, instituted the first World Communications Day as a way of promoting the role of the media in the Catholic Church. Paul VI is on record as saying that the Church would feel guilty before the Lord if she did not utilize the powerful social means of communication to spread the Gospel. His successors, John Paul II, and now Benedict XVI, who inherited a Church that is facing an increasingly more electronically-complex and complicated world, have continued the laudable tradition of sending each year, in the month of May, a message, challenging Catholic media men and women to take advantage of the ever rapid means of social communications at their disposal to spread Christ’s message of hope to an increasingly secular world.

Defend the Catholic faith, but don’t attack others

By Martin Jumbam 

Attacks against the Catholic Church that is in Cameroon from other Christian denominations in this country, especially those of the Pentecostal persuasion, are nothing new.  New, however, is the increasing tendency certain Catholic circles now have to take the battle of abuses and threats to the doorsteps of their attackers.  But is that the right thing to do? The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI says No! Defend your faith, he tells us, but don’t attack others!