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 1   I, 1 |          make of the media of social communication. Although it typically is
 2   I, 1 |            only by those who receive communication - viewers, listeners, readers -
 3   I, 1 |            the instruments of social communication and determine their structures,
 4   I, 2 |              2. The impact of social communication can hardly be exaggerated.
 5   I, 2 |       rapidly is making the media of communication even more pervasive and
 6   I, 2 |         audio recordings, electronic communication transmitted over the airwaves,
 7   I, 3 |    interested in the means of social communication. Viewed in the light of
 8   I, 3 |          faith, the history of human communication can be seen as a long journey
 9   I, 3 |            Babel, site and symbol of communication's collapse (cf. Gn 11:4-
10   I, 3 |          tongues (cf. Acts 2:5-11) - communication restored by the power of
11   I, 3 |        Communion). Indeed, all human communication is grounded in the communication
12   I, 3 |     communication is grounded in the communication among Father, Son, and Spirit.
13   I, 3 |            us by a Son" (Heb 1:1-2). Communication in and by the Church finds
14   I, 3 |             divine Persons and their communication with us.~
15   I, 4 |      approach to the means of social communication is fundamentally positive,
16   I, 4 |           professionally involved in communication by setting out positive
17   I, 4 |             upon the means of social communication, we must face honestly the "
18   I, 4 |            people involved in social communication in any capacity are conscientious
19   I, 5 |        including the world of social communication, is "precisely her vision
20  II    |                            II~SOCIAL COMMUNICATION~THAT SERVES THE HUMAN PERSON~
21  II, 6 |        capacity for dialogue.~Social communication has immense power to promote
22  II, 7 |             a market economy. Social communication supports business and commerce,
23  II, 8 |                 8. Political. Social communication benefits society by facilitating
24  II, 9 |        Cultural. The means of social communication offer people access to literature,
25  II, 10|            walls, the instruments of communication, including the Internet,
26  II, 12|            community. And indeed all communication ought to be open to community
27  II, 12|              Life in Community, 29). Communication that serves genuine community
28  II, 12|         Communio et Progressio, 11).~Communication like this seeks the well
29  II, 12|            for the parties to social communication to engage in such dialogue
30 III    |                           III~SOCIAL COMMUNICATION~THAT VIOLATES~THE GOOD OF
31 III, 13|            media. Often, too, social communication overlooks what is genuinely
32 III, 14|              circumstances, means of communication that ought to benefit all
33 III, 14|             Even more fundamentally, communication structures and policies
34 III, 16|          through the means of social communication also is a serious, growing
35 III, 16|             their cultural heritage.~Communication across cultural lines is
36 III, 16|           another. But transcultural communication should not be at the expense
37 III, 16|           Culture, 33). That so much communication now flows in one direction
38 III, 18|          between the means of social communication and religion there are temptations
39 III, 19|              never be forgotten that communication through the media is not
40 III, 19|         community. It is the task of communication to bring people together
41 III, 19|            them. The means of social communication, properly used, can help
42  IV, 20|          fields also apply to social communication. Principles of social ethics
43  IV, 20|         trust are always applicable. Communication must always be truthful,
44  IV, 20|            persons.~Ethics in social communication is concerned not just with
45  IV, 20|           not just to the content of communication (the message) and the process
46  IV, 20|          message) and the process of communication (how the communicating is
47  IV, 20|      reflection and dialogue - among communication policy makers, professional
48  IV, 20|             moralists, recipients of communication, and others concerned.~
49  IV, 21|           use of the media of social communication; communication should be
50  IV, 21|             of social communication; communication should be by persons to
51  IV, 22|            serve.~Thus, while social communication rightly looks to the needs
52  IV, 22|         religious.~Communicators and communication policy makers must serve
53  IV, 22|              by a maldistribution of communication resources and information
54  IV, 22|              and processes of social communication but also about systemic
55  IV, 22|             what the means of social communication do - or fail to do - bears
56  IV, 24|              presenting all forms of communication with the sensitivity that
57  IV, 24|             too far. Media of social communication must remain an ‘Areopagus' (
58  IV, 25|              of recipients of social communication is to be discerning and
59  IV, 25|      opportunities created by social communication.~
60  IV, 26| responsibilities in regard to social communication. First and foremost, the
61  IV, 26|             the Church's practice of communication should be exemplary, reflecting
62  IV, 26|       functions in her name received communication training. This is true not
63  IV, 26|     considerations apply to internal communication in the Church. A two-way
64  IV, 26|               18). Right practice in communication is one of the ways of realizing
65   V, 27|            at a keyboard and screen. Communication technology constantly achieves
66   V, 28|          immense power, the means of communication are, and will remain, only
67   V, 28|             be specialists in social communication or specialists in moral
68   V, 29|                           29. Social communication can join people in communities
69   V, 29|              to choose.~The means of communication also can be used to separate
70   V, 29|              of circumstances, human communication has serious limitations,
71   V, 29|      increase the outreach of social communication - its quantity, its speed;
72   V, 30|           use of the means of social communication, the Church seeks dialogue
73   V, 31|          with its limitations, human communication has in it something of God'
74   V, 32|              who were to receive his communication, and he gave his message
75   V, 32|           his miracles, were acts of communication, pointing to his identity
76   V, 32|             7-26).~Jesus taught that communication is a moral act: "For out
77   V, 32|             dishonesty - any kind of communication that was bent and perverse: "
78   V, 33|             those involved in social communication, whether as policy makers