Internet in the Spiritual Formation of Future Priests

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Internet in the Spiritual Formation of Future
Priests

• Flannigan, Noelker, Clayton, Holbrook, and Holway

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What we chose?

• An interior life is important to the ministerial
  life.
• To research the use of the internet in spiritual
  formation.
• Research of primary documents, including
  authoritative Church documents and web resources.
  (See bibliography)
• Papal Documents
• Pastores dabo vobis
• GUIDE TO THE TRAINING OF FUTURE PRIESTS
  CONCERNING THE INSTRUMENTS OF SOCIAL
  COMMUNICATION

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Bibliography

• Pastores dabo vobis
• The Church and the Internet
• Ethics in Internet
• Program for Priestly Formation
• Guide to the Training of Future Priests
  Concerning the Instruments of Social
  Communication

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What we learned?

• Centrality of spiritual formation in overall
  formation of priests
• The Church has yet to address the issue of
  spiritual formation and the direct use of the
  internet in this process
• How the internet can help with this formation
• Church teachings available on the internet.
• Resources for spiritual development located on
  the internet.
• Evangelization, catechesis.
• Integrating the internet into spiritual formation
  and vice versa.

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Plans for the Future

• Further integration of the internet into
  spiritual formation
• Collection of web resources for easy research and
  use.
• Using the internet to develop web sites for
  evangelization, catechesis, sharing homilies,
  etc.
• Deepen our spiritual life

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Summary

• An interior life is important in a ministerial
  mission.
• The Church has yet to publish a document
  concerning the direct use of the internet in
  spiritual formation
• The Church has published numerous documents that
  state the importance of technology in formation
• There are resources available on the internet to
  help foster an interior life.