The heart of the ‘Message’
Media are communicating thoughts through words and images all the time, furious in speed and sometimes tone.
The ‘tone’ was addressed in the message released today for the upcoming World Communications Day. The Vatican envisions and calls for what may sound like a radical idea for the media.
“Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship”
A few snips from the Vatican Information Service press release…
“The cordial tone is the first distinctive feature of a Message which provides … ample evidence of an open and positive attitude, even defining the new technologies as ‘truly a gift to humanity’…
We don’t hear a cordial tone in messages too often these days. Which is the point.
“Truly, we are facing a new world”, [Archbishop Claudio Celli]Â concluded. A world “to be explored not by opening our eyes in amazement before new technological advances, but by opening our hearts and giving room to hope in the face of the great possibilities for the common good opening before us. This is even more important if we consider that the Message also examines certain dangers, associated not just with media distortion but with inequality in the uses to which the media may be put…”Never before, perhaps, has a Message been so powerful but also so challenging”…
It finds in friendship a shared reference point with all of humanity that grounds the appeal of the Message to promote a culture where there is respect for all and where all are invited to search for truth in dialogue”.
So, to jump in there and do its part in establishing this dialogue, the Holy See Press Office announced that the Pope and the Vatican are expanding their online presence.Â
Fr. [Federico] Lombardi announced the creation of a new Vatican channel on YouTube, through which various forms of video news will be available concerning the activities of the Pope and events in the Vatican. The site will be updated with one or two news pieces each day, none longer than two minutes, he said.
The new White House website blog says President Obama wants to hear from you on, and particularly what you think of pending legislation as it comes up. Now, the Vatican says the Pope wants you to check out the Church online, too.
Here’s the website.
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There was a wonderful Black minister who spoke at the March for Life in Washington on Thursday. Do you know his name and how he can be contacted? I would like to hear him interviewed on Relevant Radio. His message before the march was directly addressed to President Obama: the genocide of Blacks through abortion was direct and forceful, stressing that 34% of U.S. abortions kill Black babies. Now that the Mexican Accord has been recinded and the UN program on population control soon will be supported by the U.S., the kill of Black children in Africa will far surpass that in the U.S. I’m sure this minister would have important things to say to all Pro-Life Americans.Thank you.