Pontifical Council for Social Communications

The Pontifical Council for Social Communications (Latin: Pontifical Consilium de Communicationibus Socialibus ) was founded on 30 January 1948 the Secretary of State as a papal commission. John Paul II elevated the Commission by the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus of 28 June 1988 to the Pontifical Council.

The Council coordinates the activities of the Curia in the use and spread of the Gospel through modern communication media. He is also referred to as " Pontifical Media Council ".

President

Members of the Media Council

  • Ivan Dias
  • Since 2011: Josip Bozanic, Archbishop of Zagreb in Croatia
  • Since 2011: Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay in India
  • Since 2011: John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi in Kenya
  • Since 2011: Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa, DR Congo
  • Since 2011: Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York
  • Since 2011: Mark Coleridge, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Canberra - Goulburn in Australia
  • Since 2011: Rino Fisichella, Archbishop Curia
  • Since 2011: Manuel José do Nascimento Clemente Macário, Archbishop of Porto in Portugal
  • Since 2011: Joseph fastening Ateba, Archbishop of Kribi in Cameroon
  • Since 2011: Barthelemy Adoukonou, Curia Bishop
  • Since 2012: Francisco Robles Ortega, archbishop of Guadalajara
  • Since 2012: José Horacio Gómez, Archbishop of Los Angeles
  • Since 2013: Béchara Pierre Raï, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and all the East

Advisor to the Media Council (selection)

  • Since 2011: Paul Wuthe, media relations officer of the Austrian Bishops' Conference and editor of the Catholic News Agency Kath Press ( since 2010)
  • Since 2011: Giovanni Maria Vian, director of the Vatican newspaper L' Osservatore Romano
  • Since 2011: Antonino Spadaro SJ, director of La Civiltà Cattolica
  • Since 2011: Eric Salobir OP, journalist at TV station KTO and General Secretary for Social Communications at the Dominicans
  • Since 2011: Augustine Savarimuthu SJ, director of the Centro Sociale interdisciplinare sulla Comunicazione ( CICS) at the Pontifical Gregorian University
  • Since 2011: Dominica Dipio OP, a professor at Makerere University in Kampala
  • Since 2011: Antonio Preziosi, director of Rai Radio 1 and Radio Giornale Rai
  • Since 2011: Erminio Fragassa, media entrepreneur ( Micromegas Comunicazione )
  • Since 2011: Marco Tarquinio, director and journalist at Avvenire
  • Since 2011: Gregory Erlandson, Editor in Chief of the U.S. Sunday newspaper " Our Sunday Visitor " and president of Catholic Press Association
  • Since 2011: Susana Nuin Núñez, social scientist and consultant for the Council of Latin American Bishops' Conferences CELAM
Claudio Maria Celli Paul Tighe Andrzej Maria Deskur John Patrick Foley Timothy M. Dolan
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