The pope met with journalists from the Italian Catholic Press Union to celebrate their 60th anniversary. There, he gave some advice to the reporters.<\/p>\n
BE THE VOICE OF CONSCIENCE<\/ins><\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope told journalists to be aware of their roles throughout history.<\/p>\n MAKE MEMORIES<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Pope Francis said that reporters must always be free in front of their audiences.<\/p>\n THE POWER OF WORDS<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope recognized the current challenges journalists face in communicating the truth to different audiences.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> BE RESPONSIBLE<\/p>\n In the digital age, Pope Francis recalled that a journalist's work can help unmask false and destructive news.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope called on reporters to not fear challenging powers and encouraged them to tell the truth, give a voice to minorities, tell the \u201cgood news\u201d and build communities of thought.<\/p>\n Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi September 23, 2019. The pope met with reporters from the Italian Catholic Press Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aUWNiltaMvo","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bunionprensaitalianaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bunionprensaitalianaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n \u201cI urge you to be the voice of the conscience of a journalism capable of distinguishing good from evil, human choices from inhuman ones. Today there is a jumble that is not able to be distinguished. You must help in this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n \u201cA journalist \u2013 who is the chronicler of history \u2013 is called to reconstruct the memory of the facts, to work for social cohesion, to tell the truth at any cost.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n \u201cCommunication needs real words in the midst of so many empty words. In this, you have a great responsibility: your words tell the story of the world and shape it. Your stories can generate spaces of freedom or slavery, of responsibility or dependence on power.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n \u201cHow often a journalist wishes to go along this road, but behind him or her there is an editor who says, 'No, we don\u2019t publish this, this yes, this no,' and all this truth is distilled in terms of the financial convenience of the editor, and ends up communicating what is not true, what is not beautiful and what is not good.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n \u201cIn the age of the web, the task of the journalist is to identify credible sources, and to contextualize, interpret and prioritize them. I often give this example: a person freezes to death in the street, and does not make the news; whereas if the Stock Exchange falls by two points, all the agencies talk about it. Something isn't working.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Translated: Rachel Dobrzynski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"