"The Family between Ecclesiastical Law and Mediated Reality." This was the main theme of the first National Day of Study on Family-Media-Church, held in Vienna on April 20th.
Inspired by Pope Francis' message for the 49th World Day of Social Communications, which will be celebrated on May 17th on the theme "Communicating the Family: A Privileged Place of Encounter with the Gift of Love," and thinking of the 14th Ordinary General Synod on the Family, scheduled to be held in the Vatican from 4 to 25 October, the organizers of the meeting in Vienna wanted to give professional and social agents who deal with the family on the church level an opportunity for both reflection and study.
According to Paul Wuthe, spokesman of the Austrian Bishops' Conference, it is in fact increasingly urgent to "become aware of the importance of the transmission of the family's image in the media. It is important to ask what determines the image of the family in the media and how the Church can help to keep the Christian ideal of the family imprinted in the media."
This day of study was organized conjointly by the press office of the Austrian Bishops' Conference, the Catholic agency kathpress.at, the association of diocesan newspapers, and the Austrian Association of Catholic families.
