COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, JULY 12, 2009 (Zenit.org).-
The news media have incredible influence over how opinion is formed,
and it's urgent for Catholics to understand how news is reported and
who works behind the scenes, says Archbishop Charles Chaput.
The
archbishop of Denver said this last week in an address he gave to
Legatus, an organization that ministers to Catholic business leaders.
His
talk was titled "Catholics and the 'Fourth Estate,'" making reference
to a term coined in revolutionary times. At that time in France, the
three main pillars of society -- the clergy, the nobles and the common
people -- were referred to as the three "estates" of French society.
In
was in that context that the press was referred to as the "fourth
estate," acknowledging the power and influence of the written word.
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