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501 2,B(18) | Lumen Gentium, n. 1, in AAS, LVII (
502 2,B(18) | Lumen Gentium, n. 1, in AAS, LVII (1965), p. 5.~~~~~~
503 2,D(21) | Cf. Canon 212.2, in AAS, LXXV, 2 (1983), p. 34.~~~~~~
504 2,A(14) | Socialis, n. 46, in AAS, LXXX (1988), p. 579.~~~~~~
505 3,B(28) | Christifideles Laici, n. 44, in AAS, LXXXI (1989), p. 480.~~~~~~
506 2,D(23) | Theologian, n. 30, in AAS, LXXXII (1990), p. 1562.~~~~~~
507 Intro | isolate herself from the mainstream of these events, the Council
508 1,B | such investment has been a major factor leading governments
509 | makes
510 Intro | discs, computerized image making and other computer and digital
511 2,A | religious dimensions of man and society".14~One also
512 App,4 | seminars in technology, management and communications ethics
513 2,B | and intimately linked with mankind and its history".15 Those
514 1,B | policies aimed at increasing market competition. For this and
515 App,4 | development of joint promotion, marketing, and distribution networks;~
516 1,B | the need to develop new markets, communications firms become
517 3,A | communications technology is a marvelous expression of human genius,
518 3,B | development~13. As matters stand, mass-media at times exacerbate individual
519 3,B | secularism, consumerism, materialism, dehumanization, and lack
520 1,A | how people understand the meaning of life itself.~Indeed,
521 2,B | becomes possible to offer meaningful proposals for removing obstacles
522 2,B | their task is not confined merely to the giving out of Church
523 Intro | Church as being in the very midst of human progress, sharing
524 4,C | likewise be prepared to minister both to the "information-rich"
525 4,A | too, it is a concern of minorities within particular nations,
526 2,D | communion, rooted in and mirroring the intimate communion of
527 2 | this respect, communication mirrors the Church's own communion
528 1,A | find ways to furnish the missing information to those deprived
529 1,B | public systems can clearly be misused for purposes of ideological
530 3,A | communications technology has been a mixed blessing, and its use for
531 2,B | internal structures and modalities -- and to offer support
532 1,A | Church's own structures and modes of functioning.~All this
533 3,B | rejection of every form of monopoly and manipulation". 29~
534 2,A | family, on religion and on morality -- an outlook that does
535 4,D | do what is ethically and morally right -- to integrate moral
536 | Moreover
537 | most
538 4,A | levels of human feeling and motivation.~The overwhelming presence
539 App,4 | FOLEY, President~~~~~~ ~~~~Msgr. PIERFRANCO PASTORE, Secretary~~~~~~
540 1,B | firms become ever more "multinational" in character; at the same
541 1,A | voice of the Gospel can be muted, though not entirely stilled,
542 2 | Church itself is "Christ's Mystical Body -- the hidden completion
543 App | within the same country. It naturally follows that the Church'
544 3,C | and indeed to the very nature, of the media, whose proper
545 1,A | consequences, both positive and negative, for the psychological,
546 4,A | can be more effective than newer media in spreading the Gospel
547 | no
548 4,D | right -- to integrate moral norms ever more fully into their
549 1,B | accountability. It should be noted in this connection that,
550 App,4 | provide the necessary support, nourish the communicators' faith
551 | Nowhere
552 2,B | kind of presence which both nurtures community and supports people
553 2,D | Law, that, besides showing obedience to the pastors of the Church,
554 2,B | proclaim God's Word are obliged to heed and seek to understand
555 App,4 | communicators in articulating and observing ethical standards, especially
556 App,1 | spiritual growth;~f) means of obtaining and maintaining financial
557 3,B | culture of peoples which occurs through a firm and courageous
558 | off
559 App | following guidelines are offered as assistance to those formulating
560 2,D | structure and diversity of office and function; and this equality
561 | once
562 4,A | in relation to developed ones; and often, too, it is a
563 2,D | exert the pressure of public opinion that one contributes to
564 2,D | sharing of information and opinions.~It will be well to bear
565 App,4 | many people a more adequate opportunity to participate in the modern
566 1,B | remains an instrument of oppression and exclusion.~
567 Intro | cable television, fiber optics, video cassettes, compact
568 2 | Christ. History itself is ordered toward becoming a kind of
569 Intro,0(4) | Communications Day 1990, in L'Osservatore Romano, Jan. 25, 1990, p.
570 App,1 | and values;~e) pastoral outreach to, and dialogue with, media
571 | over
572 1,A | media either to reinforce or override the traditional reference
573 4,A | feeling and motivation.~The overwhelming presence of mass media in
574 App,4 | media literacy for teachers, parents, and students;~e) to encourage
575 2,D | good of the Church". 22~Partly this is a matter of maintaining
576 3,B | sense which is animated by a passion for the truth"; it likewise
577 App,4 | Msgr. PIERFRANCO PASTORE, Secretary~~~~~~
578 App,1 | Episcopal Conference or Patriarchal Assembly~24. A pastoral
579 1,B | create artificial needs and patterns of consumption.~Commercial
580 App,4 | contribute to the emergence of peace and justice in the world.
581 4,D | specifically responsive to the peculiar working conditions and moral
582 1,A | communications, and the perception and transmission of values,
583 1,A | communications revolution affects perceptions even of the Church, and
584 2,E | is daily rendering more perfect".25 The media of social
585 5,B | the desirable process of periodic re-examination and adaptation.
586 App,4 | timely fashion from a Gospel perspective concerning the moral dimensions
587 Intro | attitudes brought about by the pervasive presence of media -- much
588 App,4 | Feast of the Chair of St Peter the Apostle.~ ~~~JOHN P.
589 App,2 | this process, whose two phases are: 1. research, and 2.
590 App,4 | President~~~~~~ ~~~~Msgr. PIERFRANCO PASTORE, Secretary~~~~~~
591 2,E | personal contact, popular piety, the liturgy and similar
592 2,B | beings during their earthly pilgrimage. 19~Thus, in seeking to
593 Intro | the obstacles sometimes placed in the way of the Church'
594 Intro | avail in view of the role played by communications during
595 3,B | lack of concern for the plight of the poor and neglected. 27~
596 2,B | responding to a crucial point made by the Second Vatican
597 App,4 | Development of Peoples. Accessible point-to-point communications and mass
598 3,A | society. But, as we have also pointed out, the application of
599 1,A | the traditional reference points of religion, culture, and
600 Intro | historical significance the Pope reflects in Centesimus Annus. 1~
601 1,B | influence on media content: popularity is preferred over quality,
602 2,A(13) | for Social Communications, Pornography and Violence in the Media:
603 2,D | knowledge, competence, and position, have "the right, indeed
604 App,4 | taking informed, responsible positions on matters of communications
605 Intro | and has given birth to new possibilities for the mission of the Church
606 Intro | insights of these conciliar and postconciliar documents, we wish to apply
607 Intro | world.... employing the full potential of the "computer age" to
608 1,B | far-reaching consequences. In practice, and often as a matter of
609 3,C | to information which is practiced in some places, the widespread
610 5,A | given to other means of preaching the Gospel and of Christian
611 5,A | greater now than previously, precisely because, to some degree
612 App | plan for communications, preferably in consultation with representatives
613 5,A | Father remarks: "Generally, preference has been given to other
614 1,B | media content: popularity is preferred over quality, and the lowest
615 4,C | society. They must likewise be prepared to minister both to the "
616 5,B | consultation involved in preparing these documents can and
617 App | conditions and the opportunities presented to the Church in the field
618 4,A | Church must take steps to preserve and promote folk media and
619 App,4 | Apostle.~ ~~~JOHN P. FOLEY, President~~~~~~ ~~~~Msgr. PIERFRANCO
620 2,D | by seeking to exert the pressure of public opinion that one
621 3,A | whole. The Church does not presume to dictate these decisions
622 Intro | emerging realities. We do not pretend to say the final word on
623 1,B | lowest common denominator prevails. Advertisers move beyond
624 App,4 | communications technology and to help prevent undue social disruption
625 3,C | things are contrary to the principal purposes, and indeed to
626 2,E | proven efficacy of the old principle "see, judge, act", the audiovisual
627 5,A | it an appropriate, high priority, taking into account the
628 3,B | social communications as "the privileged way" today for the creation
629 App,4 | planning team should then proceed to address each of the following
630 2 | Church's communications in proclaiming the Gospel. For the Church
631 App,4 | community as a whole;~b) to produce publications and radio,
632 App,1 | public and commercial media producers and directors, financial
633 App,4 | to explore cooperative productions through regional and national
634 1,B | foreign material. Thus, the products of the popular media of
635 4,D | is essential that those professionally involved in secular media
636 Intro | human communications is profoundly influencing culture everywhere.
637 Intro | quarter century after the promulgation of the Second Vatican Council'
638 3,C | nature, of the media, whose proper and essential social role
639 Conclu | As the Spirit helped the prophets of old to see the divine
640 2,B | possible to offer meaningful proposals for removing obstacles to
641 App,1 | religious communities;~c) a proposed structure for Church-related
642 2,D | communications, for realizing and protecting this right. In this connection
643 2,E | contemporary world. In view of the proven efficacy of the old principle "
644 2,B | means "devised under God's Providence" for the promotion of communication
645 App | are articulated, realistic provision is made for financing, and
646 2,B | workers respond willingly and prudently to media when requested,
647 2,E | new techniques and a new psychology".26 Today's evangelization
648 App,4 | as a whole;~b) to produce publications and radio, television and
649 App,4 | communicate Gospel values and to publicize the ministries and programs
650 2,D | God" are to be "simply and purely identified with the sense
651 3,C | promoting justice in the pursuit of the common good, and
652 Intro | at large". 2~More than a quarter century after the promulgation
653 5,B | organizations for film, radio-television, and the press.~Episcopal
654 App,4 | values to bear upon the broad range of contemporary media activities --
655 Intro | word on a complex, fluid, rapidly changing situation, but
656 | rather
657 2,E | the Church's program of re-evangelization and new evangelization in
658 5,B | desirable process of periodic re-examination and adaptation. In doing
659 4,A | personal participation and reach deeper levels of human feeling
660 Intro | face of the earth' and even reaching out to conquer space. They
661 Intro | likely to set off chain reactions with unforeseen consequences". 4~"
662 App,4 | religious media. Involving readiness to communicate Gospel values
663 1,A | what the media recognize as real; what media do not acknowledge
664 1,A | what they will think about. Reality, for many, is what the media
665 1,B | competition. For this and other reasons, public telecommunications
666 App | pastoral plans or engaged in reassessing plans which exist.~
667 2,D | necessary constantly to recall the importance of the fundamental
668 2,D | people have the right to receive correct information? Why
669 5,B | elements reflect suggestions received from episcopal conferences
670 | Recent
671 App,4 | collaborate in "the more recently-developed media: especially in regard
672 App,4 | awards and other means of recognition in order to encourage and
673 App,4 | communicators through days of recollection, retreats, seminars, and
674 App,2 | priorities for their work. It is recommended that a planning team including
675 2 | unlimited communication of God's reconciling love in creative new ways.
676 1,A | proclaim the Gospel or to reduce it to silence in human hearts.
677 1,A | override the traditional reference points of religion, culture,
678 App,4 | support ongoing theological reflection upon the processes and instruments
679 1,B | infrastructure is widely regarded as necessary to economic
680 App,4 | Churches and religious groups regarding ways of securing and guaranteeing
681 App,4 | the particular nation and region involved. A pastoral plan
682 App,4 | cooperative productions through regional and national centers and
683 1,B | control of media but in more regulation according to criteria of
684 2,A(14) | JOHN PAUL II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, n. 46, in AAS,
685 1,A | power of media either to reinforce or override the traditional
686 3,B | through a firm and courageous rejection of every form of monopoly
687 App,4 | the following issues as it relates to local circumstances.~
688 Intro | understanding of issues relating to communications and media,
689 App,1 | special emphasis on the relationship of media and values;~e)
690 1,B | government intervention remains an instrument of oppression
691 5,A | time. 31 As the Holy Father remarks: "Generally, preference
692 2,B | meaningful proposals for removing obstacles to human progress
693 2,E | that human skill is daily rendering more perfect".25 The media
694 2,D | of doctrinal issues and renders service to the truth".23
695 3,A | culture.~As we have said repeatedly, communications technology
696 2,A | and social problems in the replacement of human interaction by
697 App,4 | encouraging more widespread, representative, responsible access to the
698 2,B | prudently to media when requested, while seeking to establish
699 4,C | media, Church personnel require at least a working grasp
700 App,3 | identifies areas of ministry requiring particular attention on
701 App,3 | communications audit, and a resource inventory. The first identifies
702 2,B | leaders and pastoral workers respond willingly and prudently
703 App,1 | all Church ministries and responds to contemporary issues and
704 4 | PASTORAL PRIORITIES AND RESPONSES~
705 4,A | actively, autonomously, and responsibly in the processes of communications
706 4,D | care which are specifically responsive to the peculiar working
707 2 | whole creation»".11 As a result we move, within the Church
708 App,4 | through days of recollection, retreats, seminars, and professional
709 5,B | communications itself, or else review and bring up to date those
710 5,B | course be constantly open to revision and adaptation in light
711 Intro | influencing culture everywhere. Revolutionary technological changes are
712 4,A | places, sensitivity to the rights and interests of individuals
713 Intro | The use of new media gives rise to what some speak of as "
714 2,0(9) | Rm 1:20.~~~~~~
715 Intro,0(4) | Day 1990, in L'Osservatore Romano, Jan. 25, 1990, p. 6; cf.
716 2 | help of the word and the sacraments, toward the hope of that
717 3,A | upon culture.~As we have said repeatedly, communications
718 4,A | media. Often, too, for the sake of evangelization and catechesis
719 Conclu | with his plan for their salvation".33 As the Spirit helped
720 App,4 | from book publishing to satellite communications -- so as
721 Intro | events, the Council Fathers saw the Church as being in the
722 Intro | realities. We do not pretend to say the final word on a complex,
723 App,4 | b) to encourage Catholic schools and universities to offer
724 3,C | groups, and peoples in their search for truth. The media carry
725 5,A | pastoral planning only in a secondary way".32 This situation needs
726 App,4 | Msgr. PIERFRANCO PASTORE, Secretary~~~~~~
727 3,A | individuals, the private sector, governments, and society
728 3,C | information among all classes and sectors of society and offer to
729 3,B | These obstacles include secularism, consumerism, materialism,
730 2,C | in the face of radical secularization, to divine truth and to
731 App,4 | groups regarding ways of securing and guaranteeing access
732 | seems
733 2 | dwelling among us, and we have seen his glory: the glory of
734 Conclu | once again that the Church "sees these media as gifts of
735 2 | communication is "the giving of self in love".8 In this respect,
736 2 | all humankind. This loving self-revelation of God, combined with humanity'
737 4,A | situation in many places, sensitivity to the rights and interests
738 Intro | of the "computer age" to serve the human and transcendent
739 5,B | regions already have been well served by pastoral plans which
740 App,1 | computer networks, facsimile services and related forms of telecommunications;~
741 Intro | particular, were likely to set off chain reactions with
742 App,3 | industries, and ecumenical settings.~
743 | several
744 App,4 | reflect Gospel values as they share their gifts through the
745 5,B | documents can and should be shared at all levels in the Church,
746 | she
747 2,C | on the part of the Church sheds a unique light on social
748 2,D | Canon Law, that, besides showing obedience to the pastors
749 2,B | communications media. On the Church's side this dialogue involves efforts
750 Intro | 1990, on whose historical significance the Pope reflects in Centesimus
751 2,E | popular piety, the liturgy and similar celebrations, the use of
752 4,A | shaping and using mass media.~Similarly, we view with sympathy the
753 4,D | and women -- many of whom sincerely wish to know and do what
754 App | will be tailored to local situations.~Every episcopal conference
755 2,E | powerful means that human skill is daily rendering more
756 4,C | to acquire professional skills in media along with doctrinal
757 5,A | initiative of individuals or small groups and enter into pastoral
758 2,A(14) | PAUL II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, n. 46, in AAS, LXXX (1988),
759 2,A(14) | JOHN PAUL II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, n. 46, in
760 2,B | people in seeking acceptable solutions to personal and social problems.~
761 | something
762 2 | glory: the glory of an only Son coming from the Father,
763 Intro | gives rise to what some speak of as "new languages" and
764 App,4 | exercise a prophetic role by speaking out in timely fashion from
765 5,B | recommend that they develop specific pastoral plans for social
766 4,B | Church must continue, in spite of the many difficulties
767 4,A | effective than newer media in spreading the Gospel because they
768 App,4 | 1992, Feast of the Chair of St Peter the Apostle.~ ~~~
769 App,4 | articulating and observing ethical standards, especially in regard to
770 1,B | privatization does not lie in state control of media but in
771 App,1 | following elements:~a) the statement of a vision, based on extensive
772 5,B | pastoral letters and episcopal statements at the national and local
773 4,A | catechesis the Church must take steps to preserve and promote
774 1,A | muted, though not entirely stilled, in this way.~It is important
775 2,A | and broadcasts -- which stimulate interpersonal communication
776 2,D | truth? Why does the Church stress the responsibility of its
777 1,A | functioning.~All this has striking pastoral implications. The
778 1,B | countries are currently changing strikingly for the better, elsewhere
779 1,B | driven by profit motives, strive to create artificial needs
780 App,4 | for teachers, parents, and students;~e) to encourage creative
781 App,4 | encourage institutes of higher studies, research centers, and universities
782 App,4 | 27. After gathering and studying these data, the planning
783 4,C | into dialogue, avoiding a style of communicating which suggests
784 1,B | many instances have been subject to policies of deregulation
785 App,4 | research which have been subjected to informed analysis and
786 2,A | communication rather than substituting for it.~
787 1,B | most important measure of success. Profit motives and advertisers'
788 2,B | more communicative, more successful in disclosing Gospel values
789 Intro | consequences". 4~"Far from suggesting that the Church should stand
790 4,C | style of communicating which suggests domination, manipulation,
791 2,B | its message in a manner suited to each age and to the cultures
792 App,4 | social communications and supporting the communications initiatives
793 2,B | both nurtures community and supports people in seeking acceptable
794 4,A | Similarly, we view with sympathy the desire of many peoples
795 App,4 | generally, beginning with system compatibility";34~e) to
796 3,C | means of communication, the systematic abridgement of the fundamental
797 App | and participation will be tailored to local situations.~Every
798 App | communications ought to be taken into account in formulating
799 3,A | But even as the Church takes a positive, sympathetic
800 App,4 | professionals, who have much to teach the Church about the use
801 App,4 | education and media literacy for teachers, parents, and students;~
802 2,E | and the Church's authentic teaching. It is also necessary to
803 2,E | with new languages, new techniques and a new psychology".26
804 1,B | devalued. Profit, not service, tends to become the most important
805 Intro | and "media generation". Terms like these underline a remarkable
806 App,1 | media environment in the territory under consideration, including
807 2,C | women of our times; it is testimony, in the face of radical
808 Intro | important apostolate deserve the thanks of all.~Also welcome are
809 App,4 | written word, legitimate theatre, radio, television and film
810 2,D(23) | Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian, n. 30, in AAS, LXXXII (
811 App,4 | Church;~c) to support ongoing theological reflection upon the processes
812 App,3 | structures and procedures. The third identifies communications
813 | though
814 App,3 | and challenges these face.~Three types of research will assist
815 App,4 | role by speaking out in timely fashion from a Gospel perspective
816 | together
817 Intro | wish to provide a working tool, and a measure of encouragement,
818 App,4 | communications research include topics and issues of particular
819 Intro | communications during the "radical transformations" of 1989 and 1990, on whose
820 Intro | technology was already "transforming the face of the earth' and
821 Intro | communications and media, and to translate their understanding into
822 5,B | indicate issues for possible treatment in pastoral letters and
823 Intro | looked to the future and tried to discern the context in
824 2,D | intimate communion of the Trinity. Among the members of the
825 2,B | People of God that they are "truly and intimately linked with
826 Intro | Church should stand aloof or try to isolate herself from
827 Intro | is unifying humanity and turning it into what is known as
828 App,3 | challenges these face.~Three types of research will assist
829 4,D | communications professionals. Typically, pastoral programs of this
830 2,D | arises from baptism and underlies hierarchical structure and
831 Intro | generation". Terms like these underline a remarkable fact: today,
832 2,B | The Second Vatican Council underlined the awareness of the People
833 1,A | religion, culture, and family underlines the continued relevance
834 Intro | creative communications work underway in the Church everywhere.
835 Intro | off chain reactions with unforeseen consequences". 4~"Far from
836 Intro | communications which is unifying humanity and turning it
837 2,B | of bringing all to "full union with Christ".18 Considering
838 2,C | part of the Church sheds a unique light on social communications
839 Conclu | his providential design, unite men in brotherhood and so
840 Intro | other religions to ensure a united religious presence in the
841 3,C | structures: for example, the unjust exclusion of some groups
842 2 | living out the ongoing, unlimited communication of God's reconciling
843 Intro | Nowhere today are people untouched by the impact of media upon
844 3,D | Church for its part must urge respect for the right to
845 | us
846 | used
847 5,B | levels in the Church, as useful data for pastoral workers.
848 | using
849 2,E | the Lord if she did not utilize these powerful means that
850 5 | V. THE NEED FOR PASTORAL PLANNING~
851 App | made for financing, and a variety of communications efforts
852 Intro | the dawn of a new era, a vast expansion of human communications
853 2,A | can also sometimes be the vehicles of a deformed outlook on
854 Intro | welcome are those positive ventures in media-related ecumenical
855 1,A | the world about them, and verify and express what they comprehend.
856 2,B(16) | Cf. PAUL VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi, n.
857 Intro | what is known as a “global villag”'. The means of social communications
858 2,A(13) | Communications, Pornography and Violence in the Media: A Pastoral
859 4,B | something to contribute to virtually every other apostolate,
860 App,4 | quality which give high visibility to the message of the Gospel
861 2 | and divinity have become visible, recognized through the
862 2,E(25) | PAUL Vl, Evangelii Nuntiandi, n.
863 1,A | also to give a voice to the voiceless.~The power of media either
864 3,C | offer to all responsible voices opportunities to be heard.~
865 Intro | Progressio: "The People of God walk in history. As they... advance
866 1,B | accountability for the use of the air waves is devalued. Profit, not
867 3,D | communication should depend upon wealth, education, or political
868 Intro | the thanks of all.~Also welcome are those positive ventures
869 | whatever
870 | whether
871 1,B | communications infrastructure is widely regarded as necessary to
872 2,B | pastoral workers respond willingly and prudently to media when
873 3,A | requires sound values and wise choices on the part of individuals,
874 Intro | Recent decades also have witnessed remarkable developments
875 Intro | into practical policies and workable programs.~"As the Council
876 App,4 | society;~c) to offer courses, workshops and seminars in technology,
877 3,D | be confined to freedom of worship.~
878 App,4 | encourage creative artists and writers accurately to reflect Gospel
879 App,4 | their gifts through the written word, legitimate theatre,
880 App | A P P E N D I X~ELEMENTS OF A PASTORAL PLAN
881 Intro | new realities.~2. In the years since Inter Mirifica and
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