On the Sunday before Pentecost the Catholic Church celebrates the role of communications media and focuses on how it can best use such platforms to promote the Gospel values.

World Communications Day, also know as Communications Sunday, was established by Pope Paul VI in 1967 as an annual celebration to “encourage us to reflect on the opportunities and challenges that the modern means of social communication afford the Church to communicate the gospel message,” Patrick Duffy writes for CatholicIreland.net.