On April 6, 1926, in "La semaine religieuse de Paris", Cardinal Dubois expressed for the first time the Church's concerns regarding wireless radio. It is "a marvelous invention", "an instrument of progress" he stated in the introduction.
But beware, continued the ecclesiastic, "this brilliant creation can equally serve good and evil. The centers from which the mysterious waves originate are at will, a hotbed of truth or error, of virtue or corruption, of moral relaxation or guilty pleasure..." And to recommend "scrupulous loyalty" for the designers of programs, and "attentive vigilance" for the listeners, going so far as to advise them to "protest" in the event of non-respect "of consciences, truth and virtue".
So it was necessary to issue a first salvo of directives to the faithful and priests. The years 1927 and 1928 saw the appearance of some texts of clarifications emanating from the Holy See. Instructions were given to the German church, to broadcast sacred music on the radio, but it was specified, if it did not "concern songs performed during the divine office itself". Otherwise, it was an "abuse...practiced without the consent of the Holy Office". Anxious to keep parishioners in person, as we like to say at the moment, the Vatican also affirmed as a form of battle of the audience: "We must never suggest the idea that hearing a radio can replace attendance at the divine service and suffice for Sunday obligations". Absolute firmness of the injunction.
Vatican Radio, fighting for audience
PIUS XI in the Vatican Gardens near the Vatican Radio transmitter
Besides, after all, a good radio station gambling data hong kong was a Catholic radio station, it was suggested in the background of these recommendations.
For "radio is one of the most influential means that God has given us, and that human intelligence has invented to reach the great masses," wrote the Dutch episcopate in a letter of April 1930.
In other words, "radio is of capital importance for the church", so it was necessary to fight "against the dangers of a non-Catholic radio" by making its own programs. And to make sure that "soon, there will no longer be a single family where Catholic radio does not penetrate".
Still the battle for audiences, but this time in the very field of the new media, in the midst of other program offerings. All this because in dark rooms, the other means of disseminating information, cinema, is really not recommendable. "Cinema is greed speculating on sensuality", a cry of repulsion uttered by the Bishop of Vicenza in February 1929. He continued his indictment by pointing out "the scenes of seduction, the intrigues of adultery, the debauchery of the most abominable circles...". There they are, the risks of cinema, the man of the church growled. The filth of the image soiled the soul. The alarm was sounded. "Let patronage and parish cinemas take the greatest care in reviewing films, let them order the separation of the sexes in the theaters, and let the show not go beyond midnight. "This vision, if one dares say, of the 7th art , was very shared at the time, even if some in the church also saw it as an instrument of education...
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