Media Tasks in the Realization of the Teaching Mission of the Church in Poland

Abstract

By the will of Jesus Christ, the evangelization is the mission of the Church. It is the basis for designation the general tasks, which are: 1) the promotion of human dignity and 2) the proclamation of the truth and exposing the evil. Connecting a sociological understanding the instruments of social communication as a power, with a theological reasons of the exercise of power in the Church, which has to be the service, the specific tasks of the media can be formulated as a different types of service: 1) to the people and cultures; 2) in dialogue with the world; 3) to the human community and the social progress; 4) to the Church community and 5) to the new evangelization.