46ª GIORNATA MONDIALE DELLE COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI 2012 "Silenzio e Parola: cammino di evangelizzazione."

Kolkata (Times of India): The Archdiocese of Calcutta on Tuesday launched a website http://www.archdioceseofcalcutta.in  to mark the completion of 125 years of its foundation in the city. On September 1, 1886, the catholic hierarchy was set up in British India by Pope Leo XIII and the Vicariate Apostolic of Bengal was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese and christened 'Archdiocese of Calcutta'. "We have a mission of service in education, healthcare and social development. To mark the occasion, we are going to organize a series of events this year," said Archbishop of Calcutta Lucas Sirkar. Commenting on the…

Deep down even aspirations are quick prayers with few syllables, or we could even define them astweets ante litteram. Why can't the same thing be done with comments on Scripture, Bishop Hervé Giraud of Soissons, one of the oldest cities of the Piccardy region, and President of the Council for Communications of the French Bishops' Conference, asked himself, thus sending…

46th WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY 2012 Silence and Word: path of evangelization. The extra-ordinarily varied nature of the contribution of modern communications to society highlights the need for a value which, on first consideration, might seem to stand in contra-distinction to it. Silence, in fact, is the central theme for the next World Communications Day Message: Silence and Word: path of evangelization. In the thought of Pope Benedict XVI, silence is not presented simply as an antidote to the constant and unstoppable flow of information that characterizes society today but rather as a factor that is necessary for its integration. Silence,…