During the summer of 2019, the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life hosted a faculty symposium for international scholars on the topic of teaching media and communications in the digital environment. Not since the printing press or the advent of electricity has the Church had to consider such an epochal shift in social, cultural, and psychological sensibilities wrought by a new technology. Avoiding the ready temptation to either condemn or champion the new technologies, the goal of the symposium is to assist the Church and university in the work of recovering a Catholic understanding of the new cultural context and developing new curricula and pedagogies that aid Church leaders in the work of meaningful cultural engagement.
Videos of presentations from this gathering are available for viewing, below.