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from a CATHOLIC perspective

      VATICAN (CWNews.com) -- An international conference on communications was held at the Vatican this weekend, addressing the question: "Is God dead on television?"

      The conference posed the question of whether the language of the Bible can be used to address the problems created by the "Babel" of contemporary public discourse. The meeting discussed the problems created by modern means of communication, including television and the Internet. Among the prominent participants was the Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli and the Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro Valls.