2013 World Comm Day Message: social networks
The theme for the 2013 World Communications Day message was revealed at a press conference Tuesday: "Social Networks: portals of truth and faith; new spaces for evangelization." While the message itself is always published on the Memorial of St. Francis de Sales, patron of writers (January 24), the theme is released on the feast of archangels (Oct. 2) the fall before, and sets the stage for reflection and teaching to begin. The announcement of this theme of digital media continues a thread that began with 2009's "New Technologies, New Relationships " and which continued with subsequent annual messages . WCD was the sole annual celebration called for by Vatican II, and began in 1967.