ABSTRACT
Screenagers are uncomfortable with the traditional authority of text but at home with the visual; stimulated by multimedia but bored by words on a page; alive to the interactive but dead to the passive. Clearly, if the Church, whose history is so rich with words, is to engage this generation, she must break free from whatever captivity words, text and the age of print have imposed. In her conversations with the transitional generations, she must understand that they do not see text the way she has seen it.1
