Next Sunday is World Communications Day. It’s a day when we pray for all those who work in the media. It was established by Pope Paul VI in 1967 as an annual celebration that encourages us to reflect on the opportunities and challenges that the modern means of social communication afford the Church to communicate the gospel message.

To mark this year’s World Communications Day, the Holy Father Pope Francis has issued a message entitled Artificial Intelligence and the Wisdom of the Heart: Towards a Fully Human Communication. This message can be read in full here on the parish web site.

To support the church’s work in this important field, the Communications Office of the Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales is a team working in the media to publicise and promote Catholic content within mainstream media and to help support its work, there will be a retiring collection after all Masses next weekend.