Virtual Communion. Katherine G. Schmidt

in light of such rapid change and progress; Communio et Progressio, as noted above, maintains that “the right to information is not limitless,” and that these limits are dictated by a respect for the common good and for the dignity of all human life.

      Here the document reflects the aforementioned emphasis on communion. The documents from the Second Vatican Council from which Communio et Progressio takes its cues include human solidarity and the global common good as a way of extending the standard of true communion to the whole world. While the sacramental life of the church instituted by Christ is the performative means of communion for the baptized, all human beings share the image of God, which gives each person an inherent dignity as well as the innate desire for true relationships with other people and with the divine. Again, as social communications become the focus of these mid-century- and late-twentieth-century documents, they are discussed within the context of building communion both within and outside of the church that is grounded in the relationship to the divine which all human beings share in Christ’s redemption.⁴⁸