G
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Guest
For more than 120 years, the family of God here in Los Angeles has been served by a fine Catholic newspaper, The Tidings.
With this edition, a fine newspaper becomes an even more excellent news magazine. The Tidings becomes Angelus, a weekly print publication integrated with online digital and social media platforms at AngelusNews.com.
“Tidings,” as we know, is an old word that means “news of events.”
In the first English Bible translations, the word is found in the Annunciation story, where the Angel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary: “I am sent to speak to thee, and to bring thee these good tidings.”
Catholics remember this event in the traditional “Angelus” prayer. So our new name seems like a natural point of growth, especially when we recall that the first mission in Los Angeles was named for the Angel of the Annunciation, San Gabriel.
Our mission remains bringing the “good tidings” of Jesus Christ to Los Angeles and the Americas — to communicate through words and images what Jesus reveals about God’s mercy and salvation and what that means for our lives and our society.
The Angelus scene points us to something fundamental. We believe in a God who “communicates.” A God who desires to speak to us in our own language. A God who calls us to dialogue, encounter and friendship. A God who invites us to walk with him and serve him and to live together with him in a communion of love.
Through Jesus and his Church, God is still speaking to his people. This is where Church communication begins — in the Church’s mission to spread the “good tidings” of Jesus Christ and his promise of God’s love.
To serve this mission, the Church has always created its own networks and communication platforms — publishing, books, newspapers and magazines; broadcasting over radio, television, cable and satellite; and now using the channels of digital and social media.
Today, more than ever, we need a vital and independent Catholic media presence.
We find ourselves in a highly secularized society, organized more and more deliberately as if God does not matter and as if people are beyond the need for religion. Sadly, most Catholics today get most of their news and information about their faith from secular sources that are hostile to the Church and deeply skeptical about “truth claims” of Christianity.
With Angelus we are hoping to announce a renewal of the Catholic press and the Catholic media in our time.
angelusnews.com/articles/the-good-tidings-of-angelus
With this edition, a fine newspaper becomes an even more excellent news magazine. The Tidings becomes Angelus, a weekly print publication integrated with online digital and social media platforms at AngelusNews.com.
“Tidings,” as we know, is an old word that means “news of events.”
In the first English Bible translations, the word is found in the Annunciation story, where the Angel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary: “I am sent to speak to thee, and to bring thee these good tidings.”
Catholics remember this event in the traditional “Angelus” prayer. So our new name seems like a natural point of growth, especially when we recall that the first mission in Los Angeles was named for the Angel of the Annunciation, San Gabriel.
Our mission remains bringing the “good tidings” of Jesus Christ to Los Angeles and the Americas — to communicate through words and images what Jesus reveals about God’s mercy and salvation and what that means for our lives and our society.
The Angelus scene points us to something fundamental. We believe in a God who “communicates.” A God who desires to speak to us in our own language. A God who calls us to dialogue, encounter and friendship. A God who invites us to walk with him and serve him and to live together with him in a communion of love.
Through Jesus and his Church, God is still speaking to his people. This is where Church communication begins — in the Church’s mission to spread the “good tidings” of Jesus Christ and his promise of God’s love.
To serve this mission, the Church has always created its own networks and communication platforms — publishing, books, newspapers and magazines; broadcasting over radio, television, cable and satellite; and now using the channels of digital and social media.
Today, more than ever, we need a vital and independent Catholic media presence.
We find ourselves in a highly secularized society, organized more and more deliberately as if God does not matter and as if people are beyond the need for religion. Sadly, most Catholics today get most of their news and information about their faith from secular sources that are hostile to the Church and deeply skeptical about “truth claims” of Christianity.
With Angelus we are hoping to announce a renewal of the Catholic press and the Catholic media in our time.
angelusnews.com/articles/the-good-tidings-of-angelus