Editing Inter mirifica (section)

==Effects and aftermath of ''Inter mirifica''==
The document's immediate reception was fairly negative.<ref>Norman P. Tanner, The Church and the World : ''Gaudium et spes'', ''Inter mirifica'' (New York: Paulist Press, 2005), 110.</ref> The document was heavily criticized for falling short of expectations, as well as failing to provide any new or different thoughts or instructions on social communications.<ref>Norman P. Tanner, The Church and the World : ''Gaudium et spes'', ''Inter mirifica'' (New York: Paulist Press, 2005), 111.</ref> At the close of the council, in a brief assessment of the documents it had produced, the ''[[New York Times]]'' said this text had been "generally condemned as inadequate and too conservative".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Doty|first1=Robert C.|title=Pope Paul Closes Vatican Council Amod Pageantry|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/12/09/archives/pope-paul-closes-vatican-council-amid-pageantry-crowd-of-100000.html|access-date=27 April 2018|work=New York Times|date=9 December 1965}}</ref> These sentiments have been the long-standing memories of the document, with these sentiments continuing 40 years following the decree.<ref>Norman P. Tanner, The Church and the World : ''Gaudium et spes'', ''Inter mirifica'' (New York: Paulist Press, 2005), 116.</ref>

However, the document did provide the beginning stages for further Church instructions on social communications, with the further documents of ''[[Communio et Progressio]]'' and ''[[Aetatis Novae]]''.<ref>Norman P. Tanner, The Church and the World : ''Gaudium et spes'', ''Inter mirifica'' (New York: Paulist Press, 2005), 115.</ref> Furthermore, from the document emerged the '''World Communication Day''' (in full: World Social Communication Day), which was created by the Second Vatican Council, "to draw the attention of her children and of all men of good will to the vast and complex phenomenon of the modem means of social communication, such as the press, motion pictures, radio and television, which form one of the most characteristic notes of modern civilization".<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/messages/communications/documents/hf_p-vi_mes_19670507_i-com-day_en.html World Social Communications Day], accessed September 25, 2013</ref> [[Pope John Paul II]] vigorously promoted responsibility and positive goals in Social Communication not only in person but through messages given on this day<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/communications/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_20050124_world-communications-day_en.html "The Communications Media: At the Service of Understanding Among Peoples"], accessed September 25, 2013</ref> and through supporting the [[Pontifical Council for Social Communications]].