The Church's interest in the Internet is a particular expression of her longstanding interest in the media of social communication. Seeing the media as an outcome of the historical scientific process by which humankind "advances further in the discovery of the resources and values contained in the whole of creation, "the Church often has declared her conviction that they are, in the words of the second Vatican Council, "marvellous technical inventions" that already do much to meet human needs and may yet do even more. Thus the Church has taken a fundamentally positive approach to the media. Even when condemning serious abuses, documents of this Pontifical Council for Social Communications have been at pains to make it clear that "a merely censorious attitude on the part of the Church...its neither sufficient nor appropriate."
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