Personal encounter trumps digital evangelisation, Vatican expert tells Maynooth

Personal encounter is needed to win people to Christ, as the “virtualisation of evangelisation” risks weakened outreach, the Vatican’s head of evangelisation told a Maynooth gathering. To evangelise, the Church must offer spaces for “interpersonal encounter”, Archbishop Rino Fisichella said at the launch of the Year for Vocation to the Diocesan Priesthood on Tuesday, April…