Pontifical Council for Social Communications

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Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Pontificium Consilium de Communicationibus Socialibus
AbbreviationPCSC, PCCS
Merged into Secretariat for Communications
Established30 January 1948;76 years ago (1948-01-30)
Founder Pope Pius XII
Founded at Vatican City
DissolvedMarch 2016;8 years ago (2016-03)
PurposeSocial communication through mass media and information technology
Main organ
Commission
Parent organization
 Roman Curia
Subsidiaries Vatican Film Library
Formerly called
Pontifical Commission for the Study and Ecclesiastical Evaluation of Films on Religious or Moral Subjects
Pontifical Commission for Educational and Religious Films
Pontifical Commission for Cinema
Pontifical Commission for the Cinema, Radio and Television
Pontifical Commission for Social Communications
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The Pontifical Council for Social Communications (Latin : Pontificium Consilium de Communicationibus Socialibus) was a dicastery of the Roman Curia that was suppressed in March 2016 and merged into the Secretariat for Communications [4] (now "Dicastery for Communication").

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According to Pastor bonus , Pope John Paul II's 1988 apostolic constitution on the Roman Curia, the council was "involved in questions regarding the means of social communication, so that, also by these means, human progress and the message of salvation may benefit secular culture and mores." [5] It worked "to encourage and support" the Church and its members in social communication to imbue mass media "with a human and Christian spirit." [5] : n. 170 

History

First established by Pope Pius XII in 1948 and later given wider jurisdiction and new names by successive popes, most recently by John Paul II on 28 June 1988, it was responsible for using mass media to spread the Gospel. [1] [3]

It was established by the Secretariat of State as the Pontifical Commission for the Study and Ecclesiastical Evaluation of Films on Religious or Moral Subjects and was renamed the Pontifical Commission for Educational and Religious Films later that year. [1] The commission was renamed to the Pontifical Commission for Cinema in 1952, to the Pontifical Commission for the Cinema, Radio and Television in 1954, and became a permanent office of the Secretariat of State in 1959. It was reorganized as the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications in April 1964. [1] The commission was renamed Pontifical Council for Social Communications and promoted to a dicastery of the Roman Curia in March 1989. [5] The council was suppressed in March 2016. [2]

Publications

The PCSC and its predecessor bodies have published a number of statements on various topics connected with social communications, including:

In addition, the PCSC helped to draft John Paul II's 2005 apostolic letter The Rapid Development , on technological changes in the media.

List of presidents

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "A brief outline and history of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications". vatican.va. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Pontifical Council for Social Communications". Catholic-Hierarchy.org . David M. Cheney. Archived from the original on 7 April 2016.
  3. 1 2 See also, Kappeler, Warren A. (2009). "The communications legacy of Vatican II". Communication habits for the pilgrim church: Vatican teaching on media and society. American University Studies: Series 7, Theology and Religion. Vol. 287. New York: Peter Lang. pp. 71–98. ISBN   9781453904251.
  4. ↑ Francis, Pope (27 June 2015). "For the establishment of the Secretariat for Communications". vatican.va. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 John Paul II, Pope (28 June 1988). "Pastor bonus". vatican.va. nn. 169–170. Archived from the original on 23 February 2001. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  6. ↑ Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Roman Catholic Church (1989). Temas candentes. Respeto a la vida. Pornografía y violencia - Vida artificial - Homosexualidad. Vatican City: Ediciones Paulinas / Editorial Salesiana. OCLC   1105262074.
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