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Benedict XVI on the new media:
The Church must establish
a diaconate of culture
in the digital continent





VATICAN CITY, 29 OCT 2009 (VIS) - The Pontifical Council for Social Communications "has, for some time now, been following the surprising and rapid evolution of the means of communication growing in the involvement of the magisterium of the Church".



With these words, Benedict XVI received participants in the plenary assembly of that dicastery, presided over by Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, which is examining the role of new technologies in the media during these days.

The Holy Father cited Paul VI's pastoral instruction Communio et Progressio and John Paul II's Aetatis Nova, "two important documents that have favoured and promoted greater awareness on the themes tied to communication in the Church".

He also recalled John Paul II's encyclical Redemptoris Missio that affirms:

"Involvement in the mass media, however, is not meant merely to strengthen the preaching of the Gospel. There is a deeper reality involved here: since the very evangelization of modern culture depends to a great extent on the influence of the media, it is not enough to use the media simply to spread the Christian message and the Church's authentic teaching. It is also necessary to integrate that message into the 'new culture' created by modern communications".

"Effectively," Benedict XVI said, "modern culture is established, even before its content, in the very fact of the existence of new forms of communication that use new languages; they use new technologies and create new psychological attitudes. All of which supposes a challenge for the Church, which is called to announce the Gospel to persons in the third millennium, maintaining its content unaltered but making it understandable, thanks also to the instruments and methods in tune with today's mentality and culture".

At the same time, the Pope referred to his last message for the World Communications Day in which he encouraged "those responsible for communication in all areas, to promote a culture of respect for the dignity and worth of the human being, a dialogue rooted in the sincere search for truth and friendship (.) capable of developing the gifts and talents of each and of putting them at the service of the human community".

"In this way the Church exercises that which can be defined as a "deaconate of culture" in today's "digital continent", using its means to announce the Gospel, the only Word that can save the human being. The task of enriching the elements of the new culture of the media, beginning with their ethical aspects, falls to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications as well as serving as orientation and guide in helping the particular churches understand the importance of communication, which represents a key point that cannot be overlooked in any pastoral plan".

Concluding, the Pontiff recalled the 50th anniversary of the Vatican Film Archive founded by Blessed John XXIII, which possesses a "rich cultural patrimony pertaining to all humanity" and he encouraged to continuing collection and cataloguing of images "that document the path of Christianity through the suggestive witness of the image".




Here is a translation of the Holy Father's remarks:



Eminent Cardinals,
Venerated brothers in the Episcopate and Priesthood,
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ:

With great joy, I extend to you a cordial welcome on the occasion of the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. I wish to express my gratitude first of all to Mons. Claudio Maria Celli, president of your council, for the kind words he addressed to me in your behalf.

I extend my greetings to his co-workers and to you who are present, thanking you for your contribution to the work of the plenary, and for the service that you render to the Church in the field of social communications.

These days, you have reflected on the new communications technologies. Even an inattentive observer can easily note that in our time, thanks to the most modern technologies, a true and proper revolution is taking place in the field of social communications, of which the Church is increasingly acquiring a more responsible awareness.

These technologies, in fact, make possible fast and pervasive communications, with ample sharing of ideas and opinions. They facilitate the acquisition of information and news in a way that is capillary and accessible to all.

The Pontifical Council for Social Communications has been following this surprising and rapid evolution of the media, in treasuring the interventions of the Church's Magisterium.

I wish to recall here two Pastoral Instructions, in particular: Communio et Progressio of Pope Paul VI, and Aetatis Novae of John Paul II. Two authoritative documents by my venerated predecessors who favored and promoted in the Church a widespread sensibility to this subject. Moreover, the great social changes that have taken place in the last 20 years have required and will continue to require a careful analysis of the presence and activity of the Church in this field.

The Servant of God John Paul II, in the encyclical Redemptoris missio (1990) reminded us that "our task in the mass media is not only to multiply the [Gospel] announcement: it is more profound, because evangelization itself in modern culture depends in great part on their influence".

He added: "It is not enough, then, to use them to spread the Christian message and the Magisterium of the Church, but the message itself must be integrated into this 'new culture' created by modern communications" (No. 37c).

In effect, modern culture derives from the existence itself of the new means of communication - even before the contet itself of the communications - that use new languages and new techniques while creating new psychological attitudes.

All this constitutes a challenge for the Church, which is called on to announce the Gospel to men of the third millennium while keeping its content unchanged, but making it comprehensible with the tools and modalities consonant to today's mentality and cultures.

The means of social communications, so-called already in the Conciliar decree Inter Mirifica, have assumed today a pontential and function that were perhaps hardly imaginable at the time.

The multimedia character and structural inter-activity of the new media have, in some way, diminished the specificity of each of these media, gradually generating a global system of communications for which, even as each means maintains its own particular character, constant evolution in the communications world obliges us to speak increasingly of one single communications form, which synthesizes the different voices or places them in close reciprocal linkage.

Many among you, dear friends, are experts in the field and can analyze the various dimensions of this phenomenon with greater professionalism, including the anthropological, above all.

I wish to take this occasion to invite all in the Church who work in communications and who have pastoral responsibilities to respond to the challenges that these new technologies pose to evangelization.

In the Message for World Communications Day this year, underscoring the importance that these new technologies have, I encouraged those responsible for communicative processes at every level to promote a culture of respect for the dignity and value of the human being, a dialog rooted in the sincere search for the truth, and friendship which is not the end in itself but which can develop the gifts of every person to be in the service of the human community.

In that way, the Church exercises that which we might define as a 'diaconate of culture' in today's 'digital continent', going forth through its roads to announce the Gospel, the only Word that can save man.

It is the task of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
to learn in depth every element of this new culture of the media, starting from the ethical aspects, and to exercise a service of orientation and guidance to help the local Churches to grasp the importance of the new communications, which mow represents a firm and irrenunciable point of every pastoral plan.

The very characteristics of the new media, moreover, make possible, even on a large scale and the globalized dimension they have assumed, the actions of consultation, sharing and coordination, which, besides increasing the efficient dissemination of the evangelical message, can also avoid useless dispersion of strengths asnd resources.

For believers, the necessary valuation of the new media technologies must always be sustained by a constant vision of the faith, knowing that beyond the means that are being used, the efficacy of announcing the Gospel depends in the first place on the action of the Holy Spirit, who guides the Church and mankind's journey.

Dear brothers and sisters, this year is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Filmoteca Vaticana (Vatican film archives) started by my venerated predecessor, Blessed John XXIII, which has collected and catalogued filmed materials from 1896 to the present to be able to present a history of the Church.

The Filmoteca Vaticana thus possesses a rich cultural patrimony which belongs to all mankind. As I express my sincere gratitude for what has already been achieved, I encourage a continued pursuit of this interesting work of collection to document the stages of Christianity's journey, through the suggestive witness of images, so that its good work may be preserved and known.

To you who are present, thank you once again for the contribution that you offer the Church in a field that is as important as social communications, and I assure you of my prayers that the activities of your Pontifical Council may continue to bear much fruit.

I invoke on each one the intercession of our Lady and I impart to all the Apostolio Blessing.



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