The Internet provides with easily accessible social communication. You can stay at home. Nobody knows for example, that you are looking for information about religion or church service. People who have become alienated from religion or church can seize the opportunity for making contact without engagement, even anonymously. This can be a first step.
Personal contact can possibly follow when the time is ripe for it.
It is easier to consult with a church person by e-mail than to ring at the door of the parish house. It seems to me very important, that people who find it difficult to cross the threshold of the church have the opportunity to a first low-threshold approach as Internet provides. The coming and rapid spread of Internet arises the question, what would be the consequenses of this phenomenon and also the further question if religions and churches should make use of Internet in order to fulfil their mission. When we look back at new developments about communication which occurred in the past such as the invention of the art of printing, the telephone, radio and television, we see that not only much has changed at that time by these developments, but also that religions and churches have become active in all these fields. On this website the press service of the Bishop's Conference issues the communiqus of the conference, publishes pastoral letters of the bishops and articles from the official periodical of the conference, makes stories for parish periodicals available etc.