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 1 Intro  | possibilities for the mission of the Church as well as to new pastoral
 2 Intro  |            pastors and people of the Church to deepen their understanding
 3 Intro  |             the context in which the Church would be called upon to
 4 Intro  |             from suggesting that the Church should stand aloof or try
 5 Intro  |              Council Fathers saw the Church as being in the very midst
 6 Intro  |  communications work underway in the Church everywhere. Despite difficulties --
 7 Intro  |             placed in the way of the Church's access to media, and from
 8 1,A    |              perceptions even of the Church, and has a significant impact
 9 1,A    |            significant impact on the Church's own structures and modes
10 2      |            communication mirrors the Church's own communion and is capable
11 2      |              lie at the heart of the Church community.~Christ is both
12 2      |            the dynamic source of the Church's communications in proclaiming
13 2      |      proclaiming the Gospel. For the Church itself is "Christ's Mystical
14 2      |           result we move, within the Church and with the help of the
15 2,B    |              the Word of God. 16 The Church therefore must maintain
16 2,B    |           problems.~Moreover, as the Church always must communicate
17 2,B    |              special urgency" to the Church's task of bringing all to "
18 2,B    |            to foster this unity, the Church views them as means "devised
19 2,B    |           with the modern world, the Church necessarily desires honest
20 2,B    |         communications media. On the Church's side this dialogue involves
21 2,B    |          therefore requires that the Church be actively concerned with
22 2,B    |          merely to the giving out of Church news. The dialogue also
23 2,B    |          condition; it requires that Church leaders and pastoral workers
24 2,C    |         Communications in and by the Church is essentially communication
25 2,C    |     communication on the part of the Church sheds a unique light on
26 2,D    |           and information within the Church, as described in Communio
27 2,D    |      obedience to the pastors of the Church, the faithful "are at liberty
28 2,D    |           concerning the good of the Church". 22~Partly this is a matter
29 2,D    |        maintaining and enhancing the Church's credibility and effectiveness.
30 2,D    |             in a concrete manner the Church's character as communion,
31 2,D    |              persons who make up the Church, there is a radical equality
32 2,D    |              Faith". 24~Why does the Church insist that people have
33 2,D    |            information? Why does the Church emphasize its right to proclaim
34 2,D    |           Gospel truth? Why does the Church stress the responsibility
35 2,D    |            what communication in the Church means is based upon the
36 2,E    |             catechesis. Indeed, "the Church would feel guilty before
37 2,E    |         should be instruments in the Church's program of re-evangelization
38 2,E    |              great importance in the Church's approach to media and
39 2,E    |            Christian message and the Church's authentic teaching. It
40 2,E    |            ought to well up from the Church's active, sympathetic presence
41 3,A    |       evaluation~12. But even as the Church takes a positive, sympathetic
42 3,A    |              very same time that the Church offer a critical evaluation
43 3,A    |              society as a whole. The Church does not presume to dictate
44 3,B    |             this background that the Church, recognizing the media of
45 3,D    |             the media by elites, the Church for its part must urge respect
46 4,A    |   individuals may often call for the Church to promote alternative community
47 4,A    |    evangelization and catechesis the Church must take steps to preserve
48 4,B    |     Development and promotion of the Church's own media of social communications~
49 4,B    |        communications and media, the Church must continue, in spite
50 4,B    |        alongside all the rest of the Church's activities: social communications
51 4,B    |          play in every aspect of the Church's mission. Thus, not only
52 4,C    |        strongly influenced by media, Church personnel require at least
53 4,C    |        engaged in media work for the Church, they need to acquire professional
54 4,D    |             service of humanity.~The Church has a corresponding responsibility:
55 5,A    |       decisions about allocating the Church's limited human and material
56 5,A    |           less been neglected by the Church up to this time. 31 As the
57 5,B    |             secular media and of the Church's own media-related organizations,
58 5,B    |          shared at all levels in the Church, as useful data for pastoral
59 Conclu |           affirm once again that the Church "sees these media as gifts
60 Conclu |           today the Spirit helps the Church interpret the signs of our
61 App    |       opportunities presented to the Church in the field of social communications
62 App    |           naturally follows that the Church's approach to media and
63 App,1  |    communications strategies for all Church ministries and responds
64 App,2  |           and suggestions helpful to Church communicators in establishing
65 App,2  |              planning team including Church personnel and media professionals
66 App,3  |      strengths and weaknesses of the Church's current structures and
67 App,3  |           personnel available to the Church -- including not only the
68 App,3  |               including not only the Church's "own" resources but those
69 App,4  |           engaged in the work of the Church: seminarians, priests, religious
70 App,4  |          communications needs of the Church and society;~c) to offer
71 App,4  |         ethics and policy issues for Church communicators, seminarians,
72 App,4  |         others working in either the Church apostolate of social communications
73 App,4  |              media often look to the Church for spiritual guidance and
74 App,4  |          mutual consultation between Church representatives and media
75 App,4  |           who have much to teach the Church about the use of media;~
76 App,4  |              Public relations by the Church means active communication
77 App,4  |       ministries and programs of the Church, it requires that the Church
78 App,4  |         Church, it requires that the Church do all in its power to ensure
79 App,4  |            communication between the Church and the community as a whole;~
80 App,4  |        Gospel and the mission of the Church;~c) to promote media awards
81 App,4  |    communications initiatives of the Church.~32. Research. The Church'
82 App,4  |            Church.~32. Research. The Church's strategies in the field
83 App,4  |      relevance to the mission of the Church in the particular nation
84 App,4  |            needs and concerns of the Church and society;~b) to identify
85 App,4  |             it to the mission of the Church;~c) to support ongoing theological
86 App,4  | communications and their role in the Church and society.~33. Communications