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Vatican Documents

Literature Resources - sourced mainly from the EWTN library.


Date	Vatican Documents
(month/day/year)

12/17/2000	Jubilee of the Entertainment World

12/02/1999	Address to the International Cinema Conference (Pope John Paul II)

5/23/1999	Toward a Pastoral Approach to Culture (Pontifical Council for Culture)

4/04/1999	Pope John Paul II: Letter to Artists

1995	Training in the Interpretation of the Motion Picture Medium (Pontifical Council for Social Communications)

5/28/1995	Cinema: Communicator of Culture and Values (Pope John Paul II: )

12/04/1963	Inter Mirifica: Decree on the Media of Social Communications (His Holiness Pope Paul VI)

6/21/1955	Exhortations to the Representatives of the Cinema World (His Holiness, Pius XII)

6/29/1936	Vigilanti Cura - Encyclical Letter of Pope Pius XI on the Motion Picture

Various - Social Communications

1/24/2005	Pope John Paul II: Apostolic Letter on Social Communications

4/18/2002	To President of the Catholic Union of the Italian Press - Pope John Paul II

2/22/2002	Pontifical Council for Social Communications: Ethics in Internet

5/27/1989	Pope John Paul II: The Church Must Learn To Cope With Computer Culture

3/19/1986	Congregation for Catholic Education: Guide to the Training of Future Priests Concerning the Instruments of Social Communication

5/23/1971	"Communio et Progressio" on the Means of Social Communication, written by the Order of the Second Vatican Council

World Communications Day

1/24/2008	Message of the Holy Father Benedict XVI 42nd World Communications Day (to be celebrated 5/04/2008)

5/20/2007	Message of the Holy Father Benedict XVI for the 41st World Communications Day. Theme: "Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education"


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