CRITERIA FOR ECUMENICAL COOPERATION IN THE MEDIA

6. The era of communication and information that is taking shape today is contributing to the fashioning of a new sort of relationship between persons and communities. It requires an increasingly deeper unity on the part of Christians through the exercise of close cooperation.

The impulse towards ecumenical action and initiative comes from the message and the decisions of Vatican Council II, ² as well as from later Church documents indicating how these are to be applied and interpreted. ³ They illustrate the unity which already exists among the Churches and Christian communities. Such an attitude can only make more credible the work and methods of evangelization in the service of the Kingdom of God.

-VATICAN COUNCIL II, Conciliar decree Unitatis redintegratio, "Acta Apostolicae Sedis" 1965, esp. pp. 99-100 n. 12.

-PONTIFICAL COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS, Pastoral Instruction Communio et progressio, "Acta Apostolicae Sedis" 1971, pp. 628-630, n. 96-100; SECRETARIAT FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY, Directorium ad ea quae a Concilio Vaticano II de re oecumenica promulgata sunt exsequenda, "Acta Apostolicae Sedis" 1967, pp. 574-592 (an updated edition is scheduled for publication in 1989); PONTIFICAL COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS, Critères généraux pour la collaboration æcuménique dans les communications sociales, "Bulletin d'information" 80 (1971), pp. 65-66 (updated by this present document). See also: SECRETARIAT FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY, Reflections and Suggestions Concerning Ecumenical Dialogue, "Information Service" 12 (1970), pp. 5-11; Common Witness and Proselytism, "Information Service" 14 (1971), pp. 18-23; Ecumenical Collaboration at the Regional, National and Local Levels, "Information Service"26(1975),pp.8-31; Sects or New Religious Movements: Pastoral Challenge,"lnformation Service" 61 (1986), pp. 144-154.