New center promotes 'media mindfulness'

n an upper room above the Pauline Books & Media store in Culver City, some 40 communicators of the printed and spoken word gathered June 7 for the dedication of the new Pauline Center for Media Studies.

Our Lady of the Angels Region Auxiliary Bishop Edward Clark opened the service with a prayer blessing the center's mission of "promoting and teaching media mindfulness within the context of culture, education and faith formation." Backed by a movie screen on the wall behind him, he spoke about the importance of training people in media literacy.

"People need to be educated to get to the heart of the truth [in different forms of media] so that they can simply draw it into themselves, absorb it and come to understand the truth by what they experience. So often we need teachers to teach us that, especially in the sound and visual media [so we can] discover what in fact is truth and distinguish it clearly from what is propaganda," said Bishop Clark

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