CRITERIA FOR INTER-RELIGIOUS COOPERATION IN COMMUNICATIONS

15. The era of communication and information taking shape today demands equally of all who live a religious faith and who are engaged in the service of public dialogue a mutual commitment for the good of humanity.
These guidelines for a joint response by Christians and members of other religions to the opportunities which arise in modern communications exchange reflect the spirit of the relevant decrees of Vatican Council II. ⁸ Inter-religious understanding is based on the common quest by the world's great religions to make a fitting reply to the main questions regarding human destiny. A serious and continuing joining of efforts will help to overcome any tendency within the general public to have a superficial, superstitious, or magical understanding of religion.

-VATICAN COUNCIL II, Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate, "Acta Apostolicae Sedis" 1966, pp. 740-744; SECRETARIAT FOR NON-CHRISTIANS, Towards the Meeting of Religions, Suggestions for Dialogue, "Bulletin" (supplement n. 3) 1967, pp. 1-51; IDEM, The Attitude of the Church torwards the Followers of Other Religions, Bulletin 1984, pp. 126-141; COMMISSION FOR RELIGIOUS RELATIONS WITH JUDAISM, Guidelines and Suggestions for Implementing the Conciliar Declaration "Nostra Aetate" (n. 4), "Information Service" 26 (1975), pp. 1-7.