| A fine mattinata, nella
Sala Clementina del Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano, il Santo Padre
Giovanni Paolo II ha ricevuto in Udienza i partecipanti all’Assemblea
Plenaria del Pontificio Consiglio delle Comunicazioni Sociali ed
ha loro rivolto le parole di saluto che riportiamo di seguito:
SALUTO DEL SANTO PADRE
Your Eminences,
Your Excellencies,
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I am pleased once more to greet you, the Members of the Pontifical
Council for Social Communications, on the occasion of your Plenary
Meeting and I thank your President, Archbishop John Foley, for his
kind words.
As your Meeting this year marks the Fortieth Anniversary of the
Second Vatican Council’s Decree on the Instruments of Social
Communication, as well as the Fortieth Anniversary of the foundation
of your Dicastery, I encourage you to draw inspiration from the
conciliar document to continue in your mission of helping those
who work in this vast field to animate it "with a humane and
Christian spirit" (Inter Mirifica, No. 3). In this way the
media will be in a better position to tap their "enormous positive
potential for promoting sound human and family values and thus contributing
to the renewal of society" (Message for the 2004 World Communications
Day, No. 6).
I invoke the guiding light of the Holy Spirit upon you and your
work, and I cordially impart to all of you my Apostolic Blessing.
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