Theme announced for next World Day of Social Communications

September 29, 2014

“Communicating the Family: A Privileged Place of Encounter with the Gift of Love” will be the theme of the next World Day of Social Communications, which will take place on May 17.

The papal message for the day is traditionally released on January 24, the feast of St. Francis de Sales.

“The daily news show us the difficulties facing the family today,” according a news release from the Pontifical Council of Social Communications. “Oftentimes cultural changes do not help us appreciate how much the family is a good for society.”

The Pontifical Council added:

Today, how can we tell people who are perhaps wounded and disillusioned that love between a man and a woman is a good thing? How can we help children know that they are a most precious gift? How can we warm the hearts of people, especially those who are wounded and disappointed, and help them rediscover the beauty of love? How can we show that the family is the privileged place where we experience the beauty of life, the joy and the gift of love, the consolation of forgiveness offered and received, and the encounter with the other?

 

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Further information:

• Tema della Giornata Mondiale delle Comunicazioni Sociali 2015 (Holy See Press Office)
• Comunicato del Pontificio Consiglio delle Comunicazioni Sociali (Holy See Press Office)