March 31, 1998
 
MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT
OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
TO THE READERS OF ZENIT
 

    The Pontifical Council for Social Communications is pleased to cooperate with the ZENIT news agency in an initiative that is a big part of the reason for being of the RIIAL (Digital Network of the Church in Latin America). The clergy of the people of God connected to the same have expressed with insistence the desire, totally assumed by our pontifical council, to dispose of the pontifical texts and documents in their integrity, and immediately after their publication in Vatican City.
    In this way, a service is born that desires to cover a heartfelt necessity of the Spanish-speaking world. We hope that with this effort we are able to make these documents available in a timely and efficient manner.
 + John P. Foley
  President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications