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 1   1,  1    |       longstanding interest in the media of social communication.
 2   1,  1    |          communication. Seeing the media as an outcome of the historical
 3   1,  1    |           positive approach to the media. 3 Even when condemning
 4   1,  1(3) |     Violence in the Communications Media: A Pastoral Response, Pastoral
 5   1,  1    |              The Church sees these media as ‘gifts of God' which,
 6   1,  1(4) |     Violence in the Communications Media, n. 30.~
 7   1,  2    |         and brother”. 7~The modern media of social communication
 8   1,  2    |        society”. 8 Considering the media of social communication
 9   1,  3    |      two-fold aim in regard to the media. One aspect is to encourage
10   1,  3    | responsible for the communications media”—a dialogue that relates
11   1,  3    |        primarily to the shaping of media policy. 11 “On the Church'
12   1,  3    |          efforts to understand the media—their purposes, procedures,
13   1,  3    | encouragement to those involved in media work. On the basis of this
14   1,  4    |           pointed out that “modern media offer new ways of confronting
15   1,  4    |            if it failed to use the media for evangelization. 18 Pope
16   1,  4    |        John Paul II has called the media “the first Areopagus of
17   1,  4    |           is not enough to use the media simply to spread the Christian
18   1,  4    |       today, since not only do the media now strongly influence what
19   1,  4    |         itself is an experience of media”. 20~All this applies to
20   2,  5    |         News to people formed by a media culture requires taking
21   2,  5    |     special characteristics of the media themselves, the Church now
22   2,  5    |          order to use it well.~The media offer important benefits
23   2,  7    |            some form of continuing media education, whether by personal
24   2,  7    |         teaching about techniques, media education helps people form
25   2,  7    |          the Church should provide media education of this kind”. 32~
26   2,  7    |          comprehensive programs of media education available to members
27   2,  7    |  communication that lie within the media...So, young people will
28   2,  7    |          begun” 34—an age in which media are seen to be “part of
29   2,  8    |           level, “the world of the media can sometimes seem indifferent
30   2,  8    |             This is partly because media culture is so deeply imbued
31   2,  8    |    pornography and violence in the media, Internet hate sites are “
32   2,  8(38)|     Violence in the Communications Media, n. 7.~
33   3,  11   |      Church need to understand the media, apply this understanding
34   3,  11   |            make appropriate use of media. Where necessary, they should
35   3,  11   |     necessary, they should receive media education themselves; in
36   3,  11   |            as well as to the older media. Church leaders are obliged
37   3,  11   |       pastoral workers should have media education to increase their
38   3,  11   |           interests of people in a media culture. Today this clearly
39   3,  11   |     personnel directly involved in media, it hardly needs saying
40   3,  11   |         preparing for professional media work or decision‑making
41   3,  11   |           models of prudent use of media in the home”. 49 As far
42   3,  11   |        open to formation regarding media, resisting the easy path
43   3,  12   |    Internet, as upon all the other media of social communications,