CONCLUSION

22. We affirm once again that the Church "sees these media as gifts of God' which, in accordance with his providential design, unite men in brotherhood and so help them to cooperate with his plan for their salvation".³³ As the Spirit helped the prophets of old to see the divine plan in the signs of their times, so today the Spirit helps the Church interpret the signs of our times and carry out its prophetic tasks, among which the study, evaluation, and right use of communications technology and the media of social communications are now fundamental.

Communio et Progressio, n. 2, in AAS, LXIII (1971), pp. 593-594.