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New Media Culture

Magazines and
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Online News
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Film, TV and Music

 

There are many excellent resources for Catholics online. You can find many of these below. These lists will constantly be updated and expanded, so don’t forget to check back with us on a regular basis!

If you know of any good online resources you would like to share, send an email to:

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Church Documents on Faith and the New Media Culture

Apostolic Letter, The Rapid Development, John Paul II to those
responsible for Social Communications (2005)

This is an excellent summary of our mission in the media from a reliable source! http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_
20050124_il-rapido-sviluppo_en.html

Document library of the Pontifical Council for Social Communicationshttp://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/index.htm

The Church and Internet (2002)http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/documents/rc_pc_pccs_doc_
20020228_church-internet_en.html

Ethics in Internet (2002)
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/documents/rc_pc_pccs_doc_
20020228_ethics-internet_en.html

Ethics in Communications (2000)http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/documents/rc_pc_pccs_doc_
20000530_ethics-communications_en.html

Pastoral Instruction on Social Communications, Aetatis Novae (1992)http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/documents/rc_pc_pccs_doc_
22021992_aetatis_en.html

Pornography and violence in the communications media: a pastoral
response (1989)

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/documents/rc_pc_pccs_doc_
07051989_pornography_en.html

Guide to the training of future priests concerning the instruments of
social communications (1986)
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/documents/rc_pc_pccs_doc_
19031986_guide-for-future-priests_en.html

Conciliar Decree on the Media of Social Communications,
Inter Mirifica
(1963)
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_
19631204_inter-mirifica_en.html

 

Magazines and Webzines

Godspy
http://www.godspy.com/

Mercatornet
http://www.mercatornet.com/

Busted Halo
http://www.bustedhalo.com/

America
http://www.americamagazine.org/

American Catholic
http://www.americancatholic.org/

Chiesa
http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/index.jsp?eng=y

Christianity Today
http://www.christianitytoday.com/

Commonweal
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/

First Things
http://www.firstthings.com/

Image Journal
http://www.imagejournal.org/

The New Atlantis
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/

The New Pantagruel
http://www.newpantagruel.com/

The Tablet
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/issues/1000012/

The New Advent
http://www.newadvent.com/

Second Spring
http://www.secondspring.co.uk/

Magnificat
http://www.magnificat.com/us/indexus.htm

Crisis
http://www.crisismagazine.com/

 

Online News Sources

National Catholic Reporter
http://ncronline.org/

National Catholic Register
http://www.ncregister.com/

Asia News
http://www.asianews.it/main.php?l=en

Catholic World News
http://www.cwnews.com/

Life News
http://www.lifenews.com/

L’Osservatore Romano
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_eng/index.html

Zenit
http://www.zenit.org/english/

Our Sunday Visitor
http://www.osv.com/

Catholic News Archive
http://www.mycatholic.com/news/

 

Film, TV, and Music

Office for Film and Broadcasting (USCCB)
http://www.usccb.org/movies/index.shtml

Telecare
http://www.telecaretv.org/default.htm

100 Years of Cinema (1996)
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/documents/rc_pc_pccs_doc_
19960101_100-cinema_en.html

Catholic News Service Movie Reviews
http://www.catholicnews.com/movies.htm

America magazine Movie Reviews
http://www.americamagazine.org/archivesMovieReviews.cfm

Grassroots Films
http://www.GrassrootsFilms.com/

EWTN
http://www.ewtn.com/

Catholic Online TV reviews
http://www.catholic.org/ae/tv/

Act One
http://www.actoneprogram.com/actone

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