First Results of the research Picture presented at the "7th Professional Seminar for Church Communications Offices", at PUSC, Rome (Italy), 26-28 April 2010.

1. PICTURE
Priests’ ICT Use in their Religious Experience
NewMinE - New Media in Education Laboratory, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni, Emanuele Rapetti, Dr. Stefano Tardini, Sara Vannini
School of Social Institutional Communication, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy
Prof. Daniel Arasa, Mons. Lucio Ruiz

2. PICTURE in numbers
6.6% 93.4%
4992 valid respondents on paper online
117 Countries
(1.2% of 408.024 priests in the world)
Università della Svizzera italiana – NewMinE Lab & Pontifical University of the Holy Cross – School of Social Institutional Communication

3. High access to Technologies
Mobile Phone 90.6%
Laptop 82.8%
Desktop Computer 81.2%
Handheld devices 25.7%
Università della Svizzera italiana – NewMinE Lab & Pontifical University of the Holy Cross – School of Social Institutional Communication

4. High access to the Internet
How often do you access the Internet?
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5. High access to the Internet
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6. The Internet for better preparing homilies
Habits
 61.5% searches online for  8.7% never does it
homily materials at least once
per week
Perceived usefulness
 50.6% thinks it is useful or  6.8% thinks it is not useful at
very useful for the purpose all for the purpose
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7. Spiritual advice is mostly offline
How useful do you consider the Internet for offering spiritual advice?
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8. Praying is off and online
How often do you pray online?
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 35.9% (at least)weekly
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9. The Web as a mean for spreading the Faith
How useful do you consider the Internet for spreading the Christian message?
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10. The Web as a mean for spreading the Faith
‣ “New technologies allow for the enculturation of faith in
today's world”
(strongly) agrees 72.9%
‣ “Technologies allow for better evangelizing young people”
(strongly) agrees 75.1%
Università della Svizzera italiana – NewMinE Lab & Pontifical University of the Holy Cross – School of Social Institutional Communication

11. They like the Web for learning
 The Internet is considered (very)
useful for:
 finding information and data 85.2%
 reading news 82.1%
 study 75.6%
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12. They like the Web for learning
“Technologies enable the improvement of the education/
formation of priests” :
(strongly) agrees 94.7%
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14. Many on Facebook...
 79.1% thinks the Internet is useful to communicate with
other people
 43.9% does access to Social networks at least once per
week
‣ 20.7% a few times per year
 35.3% does never access
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15. ...few priests “as a friend”
With how many of your brother priests are you in contact by means of Facebook?
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16. ...few priests “as a friend”
With how many of your brother priests are you in contact by means of Facebook?
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17. A positive, non naïve, approach
How much has the use of technologies improved the way in which you perform
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18. A positive, non naïve, approach
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19. A positive, non naïve, approach
Dangers of technologies are greater than the opportunities they offer
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20. Thank You
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