Vatican official: Catholic schools must teach values in media ethics

Published: 2008-05-21

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- It makes little sense for the Catholic Church to complain about ethical failures in the media if it is not paying attention to educating future communicators in ethics, said Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. The archbishop said he wanted to know how Catholic universities are preparing students to work in the media and how his office could support them in their work. The council invited 90 professors and staff members from 58 departments of communications at Catholic universities and institutes in 44 countries to a May 22-24 meeting to share their curriculums, experiences and concerns. "The council needs to know, to understand what is happening in forming professionals in the field," he said. Archbishop Celli said he extended the invitations and posed questions, but planned to spend most of the meeting listening.

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