Pontifical Council for Social Communications

Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Pontificium Consilium de Communicationibus Socialibus
AbbreviationPCSC, PCCS
Merged intoSecretariat for Communications
Established30 January 1948; 76 years ago (1948-01-30)
FounderPope Pius XII
Founded atVatican City
DissolvedMarch 2016; 8 years ago (2016-03)
PurposeSocial communication through mass media and information technology
Main organ
Commission
Parent organization
Roman Curia
SubsidiariesVatican 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").

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 

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  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. ^ a b 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.