Daniella Zsupan-Jerome teaches pastoral theology at Saint John's University School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota. She is author of Connected Toward Communion (2014) and Speak, Lord, Your Servant Is Listening (2024) and is a regular contributor to Give Us This Day published by Liturgical Press. She is a Benedictine oblate of Saint Joseph's Abbey, Covington, Louisiana.

“Professor Zsupan-Jerome does an admirable job in bringing the church's theology of communication and teaching on communication, largely developed for an era of mass media, to bear on the world of social media. She offers a great resource for those who wish to reflect theologically on communication. Connected toward Communion will prove invaluable for students, for media professionals in the church, and for anyone engaging in online religion.”Paul A. Soukup, SJ, Professor and Department Head, Communication Department, Santa Clara University

• CONTENTSChurch and Social Communication Timeline   ixPreface   xiiiIntroduction 11  Beginning the ConversationInter Mirifica: The Decree on the Mass Media (1963)   192  Toward a Theology of CommunicationCommunio et Progressio: Pastoral Instruction on the Means of Social Communication (1971)   393  Articulating Ministerial FormationGuide to the Training of Future Priests Concerning the Instruments of Social Communication (1986)   674  Twenty Years LaterAetatis Novae: Social Communications on the Twentieth Anniversary of Communio et Progressio (1992)   815  Arriving at Internet-Mediated CommunicationEthics in Internet (2002), The Church and Internet (2002), The Rapid Development (2005), and the World Communications Day Messages   956  Church and Social Communication Today   117Epilogue   129Bibliography   131Index   137

Daniella Zsupan-Jerome teaches pastoral theology at Saint John's University School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota. She is author of Connected Toward Communion (2014) and Speak, Lord, Your Servant Is Listening (2024) and is a regular contributor to Give Us This Day published by Liturgical Press. She is a Benedictine oblate of Saint Joseph's Abbey, Covington, Louisiana.

“Professor Zsupan-Jerome does an admirable job in bringing the church's theology of communication and teaching on communication, largely developed for an era of mass media, to bear on the world of social media. She offers a great resource for those who wish to reflect theologically on communication. Connected toward Communion will prove invaluable for students, for media professionals in the church, and for anyone engaging in online religion.”Paul A. Soukup, SJ, Professor and Department Head, Communication Department, Santa Clara University

• CONTENTSChurch and Social Communication Timeline   ixPreface   xiiiIntroduction 11  Beginning the ConversationInter Mirifica: The Decree on the Mass Media (1963)   192  Toward a Theology of CommunicationCommunio et Progressio: Pastoral Instruction on the Means of Social Communication (1971)   393  Articulating Ministerial FormationGuide to the Training of Future Priests Concerning the Instruments of Social Communication (1986)   674  Twenty Years LaterAetatis Novae: Social Communications on the Twentieth Anniversary of Communio et Progressio (1992)   815  Arriving at Internet-Mediated CommunicationEthics in Internet (2002), The Church and Internet (2002), The Rapid Development (2005), and the World Communications Day Messages   956  Church and Social Communication Today   117Epilogue   129Bibliography   131Index   137

Daniella Zsupan-Jerome teaches pastoral theology at Saint John's University School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota. She is author of Connected Toward Communion (2014) and Speak, Lord, Your Servant Is Listening (2024) and is a regular contributor to Give Us This Day published by Liturgical Press. She is a Benedictine oblate of Saint Joseph's Abbey, Covington, Louisiana.

“Professor Zsupan-Jerome does an admirable job in bringing the church's theology of communication and teaching on communication, largely developed for an era of mass media, to bear on the world of social media. She offers a great resource for those who wish to reflect theologically on communication. Connected toward Communion will prove invaluable for students, for media professionals in the church, and for anyone engaging in online religion.”Paul A. Soukup, SJ, Professor and Department Head, Communication Department, Santa Clara University

• CONTENTSChurch and Social Communication Timeline   ixPreface   xiiiIntroduction 11  Beginning the ConversationInter Mirifica: The Decree on the Mass Media (1963)   192  Toward a Theology of CommunicationCommunio et Progressio: Pastoral Instruction on the Means of Social Communication (1971)   393  Articulating Ministerial FormationGuide to the Training of Future Priests Concerning the Instruments of Social Communication (1986)   674  Twenty Years LaterAetatis Novae: Social Communications on the Twentieth Anniversary of Communio et Progressio (1992)   815  Arriving at Internet-Mediated CommunicationEthics in Internet (2002), The Church and Internet (2002), The Rapid Development (2005), and the World Communications Day Messages   956  Church and Social Communication Today   117Epilogue   129Bibliography   131Index   137