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Inter mirifica identifies social communication as the press, cinema, television, and other similar types of communication interfaces. The term social communications , apart from its more general use, has become the preferred term within documents of the Catholic Church for reference to media or mass media .
The pope explains that the Church is called to spread the Gospel and the message of salvation by using contemporary communications which is, “today more than ever” , an important part of the 21st century. Pope John Paul II then explains that we live in “an age of global communication” where we are exposed to different mass media outlets.
An optical communication system is any form of communications system that uses light as the transmission medium. Equipment consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a communication channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the message from the received optical signal.
The College of Cardinals uses smoke signals to indicate the selection of a new Pope during a papal conclave. Eligible cardinals conduct a secret ballot until someone receives a vote of two-thirds plus one. The ballots are burned after each vote. Black smoke indicates a failed ballot, and white smoke means a new Pope has been elected.
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He is the first pope since Pope Pius X to live outside the papal apartments. [147] Francis still appears at the window of the Apostolic Palace for the Sunday Angelus. [148] As a Jesuit pope, Francis has been making clear that a fundamental task of the faithful is not so much to follow rules but to discern what God is calling them to do.
Mater et magistra begins by praising three earlier papal documents on social topics and summarizing their key points.. Rerum novarum is extolled: "Here for the first time was a complete synthesis of social principles, formulated with such historical insight as to be of permanent value to Christendom ... rightly regarded as a compendium of Catholic social and economic teaching", [4] "the Magna ...
In a June 2022 interview, Pope Francis stated Praedicate evangelium was the culmination of "eight-and-a-half years of work and inquiries". He adds that the document implements the requests made by cardinals before the 2013 conclave , and places "a missionary-style experience" at the heart of the Catholic Church's work.