I processi di elaborazione dei documenti del magistero. Il caso della Communio et progressio

This article reconstructs the elaboration of the pastoral instruction “Communio et Progressio”, disseminated on 23 May 1971 by Paul VI. The document is closely connected to the conciliary decree “Inter Mirifica”, on the instruments of social communication, given that its origin is owed to a specific arrangement from the Council fathers which is expressed in Decree n. 23. Drawing principally from the unpublished documentation preserved in the Archive of the Papal Council for Social Communications, it accounts for the complex editorial process that lasted seven years. During this time, the various ecclesiastical bodies carried out an effective and comprehensive evaluation of the communications that the Council had been unable to manage.