・教皇推奨のカトリック版”ポケモン・ゴー”登場-若者向け宣教に(Crux)

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(2018.10.19 Crux 

 このゲーム・アプリは、新たな福音宣教を推進する米国のthe Foundation Ramon Paneが、世界中で人気を博している日本の「ポケモン・ゴー」に触発され、来年1月にパナマで開かれるワールド・ユース・デイに向けて開発したもの。デザイナー、神学者、聖書の専門家、教会史の専門家、エンジニアなど43人が、2016年8月から延べ3万2000時間かけて開発した。開発費50万ドルはスポンサーや個人の寄付でまかなった、という。 Android か IOS のソフトがあれば、若者に限らず、世界中の誰でも無料で利用できる。

  16日に教皇の祝福を受け、推薦の言葉もいただいたー開催中のシノドスに参加している若者たちが、現代の科学技術を福音宣教の道具としてどのように活用したらいいか、について発言している。

⇒「カトリック・あい」:そのような現代の若者たちの声に応えたものとも言えるが、ゲームでどこまで信仰を学び、深めることができるのか。単なる無料ゲームに終わらなければいいが・・既に日本などで社会問題化している、周囲の人に危害を加えかねない”歩きスマホ族”、年配者や障がい者が来ても席を譲らないなど”周囲が見えないスマホ族”、果ては”スマホ中毒患者”の増加に拍車をかけないような配慮も必要だ。くれぐれも「藪を突いて蛇が出てくる」ことのないようにしてもらいたい。

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Among other things, players will look for saints, Marian devotions and biblical figures in a virtual way, answering questions to have the characters they meet join their team, and also collecting things they need for their “virtual survival,” including water, food, but also spirituality. The spiritual payoff will come in the non-virtual world, with the app letting users know they’re near a church and that it’d be a good time to say a prayer.

“Never has the Church had a project like this … this is the Catholic app with the most advanced technology there is,” said Argentinian Ricardo Grzona, executive director of the Foudnation Ramon Pane.

Honduran Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, president of the Foundation Ramon Pane, was supposed to be at the presentation, but a last-minute appointment, presumably related to the Synod of Bishops he’s participating in, kept him from attending.

However, he sent a video message in which he said: “At the synod we speak a lot about young people and technology, a more modern language. What young people want is to be active in taking the Gospel also to technology and have fun, learn and be evangelized through these channels.”

 According to Grzona, the app also comes with the support of the archbishop of Panama City, which will host the event, José Domingo Ulloa. It was Ulloa, the Argentine said, who wanted to make sure that technology is very much a part of WYD Panama.

“Everything today, language and relations, among young people, go through smartphones,” Grzona said. “We wanted to be there and propose to them an educational videogame, that is religious and interactive, and with which they can form evangelization teams.”

He gave the example of a player “finding” Moses, who will tell the player that, for him to become part of the team, the gamer has to answer the following question correctly: “Was it me who said: ‘My God, my God, why have your forsaken me?”

(Hint, the answer is no. According to the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, those words were said by Jesus right before his death, when he was on the Cross.)

In addition, the city-like map will have billboards like those often seen in the streets, but instead of having advertisements, they will have short videos with biblical explanations. When the players pass through a hospital in real life, the app will suggest they stop and say a prayer for the sick as a work of mercy.

Talking about introducing the app to the pope, Grzona said, “You know Francis is not a very technological person, but he was in awe, he understood the idea, what we were trying to do: combine technology with evangelization.”

(翻訳「カトリック・あい」南條俊二)

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