Pontifical Council 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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Pontificium Consilium de Communicationibus Socialibus | |
Abbreviation | PCSC, PCCS |
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Merged into | Secretariat for Communications |
Established | 30 January 1948; 76 years ago (1948-01-30) |
Founder | Pope Pius XII |
Founded at | Vatican City |
Dissolved | March 2016; 8 years ago (2016-03) |
Purpose | Social 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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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