MESSAGE
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FOR THE XVIII WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FOR THE XVIII WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
Theme: Social Communication: Instruments of Encounter between Faith and Culture
Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
1. Desired by the Second Vatican Council to "make the Church's multiple apostolate in the field of social communication more effective" (Decree Inter Mirifica, no. 18), this annual Day, which is being celebrated for the eighteenth time, has the scope of ever better educating the faithful in their duties in such an important sector. On this occasion, in the first place I Wish to exhort each of you to join me in prayer that the world of social communication, with its operators and multitude of receivers, may faithfully carry out its function in the service of truth, freedom and the promotion of the whole man in all people.
The theme chosen for this eighteenth day is of great importance:
Social Communications, Instrument of Encounter between Faith and Cutture. Culture, faith and communication are three realities among which a relationship is established on which depend the present and the future of our civilization, which is called to express itself ever more fully in its planetary dimension.
