9. Such is the importance of the mass media that fifteen years ago I considered it inopportune to leave their use completely up to the initiatives of individuals or small groups, and suggested that they be decisively inserted into pastoral programs.[8] New technologies, in particular, create further opportunities for communication understood as a service to the pastoral government and organization of the different tasks of the Christian community.
9. Es por ello que, en consideración de la importancia de los medios de comunicación, hace quince años juzgué insuficiente dejarlos a la iniciativa individual o de grupos pequeños, y sugerí que se insertaran con evidencia en la programación pastoral[8].