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b'Summary of today\\u2019s show: For his annual message on communications, Pope Benedict took up the topic of social networks as \\u201cspaces for evangelization.\\u201d Domenico Bettinelli joins Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O\\u2019Connell to discuss the Holy Father\\u2019s message as well as the potential pitfalls and promise of social media for Christians. Fr. Mark in particular acknowledges the challenge the Holy Father is offering but worries that the world of social media is a giant time-sink, so Scot and Dom try to address his concerns. Listen and see if they end up convincing him to dip a toe into the world of social networks.\\nListen to the show:\\n\\nWatch the show via live video streaming or a recording later: \\nToday\\u2019s host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Mark O\\u2019Connell\\nToday\\u2019s guest(s): Domenico Bettinelli of Pilot New Media\\nLinks from today\\u2019s show:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nToday\\u2019s topics: Pope Benedict XVI on social networks\\n1st segment: Scot Landry welcomed listeners to the show and introduced his co-host, Fr. Mark O\\u2019Connell. They discussed the new canon lawyer who has started in Fr. Mark\\u2019s office, the Metropolitan Tribunal. He comes from Italy.\\nToday\\u2019s discussion centered around the Holy Father\\u2019s World Day of Communications message for this this year entitled \\u201cSocial Networks: portals of truth and faith; new spaces for evangelization.\\u201d As our usual transcriptionist, Dom Bettinelli, was a guest on today\\u2019s show, we don\\u2019t have the complete\\nNow as we do every week at this time, we will consider the Mass readings for this Sunday, specifically the Gospel reading.\\n\\nJesus began speaking in the synagogue, saying: \\u201cToday this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.\\u201d And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They also asked, \\u201cIsn\\u2019t this the son of Joseph?\\u201d He said to them, \\u201cSurely you will quote me this proverb, \\u2018Physician, cure yourself,\\u2019 and say, \\u2018Do here in your native place the things that we heard were done in Capernaum.\\u2019\\u201d And he said, \\u201cAmen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land. It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.\\u201d When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. But Jesus passed through the midst of them and went away.'