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Was it too much for Catholic communicators to come to the Vatican to hear about Jesus Christ?
The Jubilee for the World of Communications took place Jan. 24-26 at the Vatican. It was the first such global gathering planned for the 2025 Jubilee Year, and parts of it were quite lovely. A Mass at St. John Lateran Basilica, in the presence of the heart of St. Francis de Sales, patron of communicators, was on the first evening. The following morning, pilgrims walked through the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica, praying for the intentions of the Holy Father. Mass at the St. Joseph altar was beautiful.
But, during the events in the Pope Paul VI audience hall adjacent to St. Peter’s—the same room where the Synod of Bishops completed its study of synodality back in October—things got a little strange.
While the theme adopted by the Vatican for this year’s Jubilee is the theological virtue of hope, it was not surprising that hope was the theme of the talk of the first keynote speaker at Saturday’s “dialogue.”
It was somewhat shocking, though, to hear unfiltered from Maria Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist who was jailed for standing up to fascism in the Philippines. She spoke not on Christ our hope, but a political, secularized consideration of it for communicators, as if we were at the United Nations.
Her story, no doubt, could have been a powerful one, if not for its blatant politicization and bias.
Continued below.
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The Jubilee for the World of Communications took place Jan. 24-26 at the Vatican. It was the first such global gathering planned for the 2025 Jubilee Year, and parts of it were quite lovely. A Mass at St. John Lateran Basilica, in the presence of the heart of St. Francis de Sales, patron of communicators, was on the first evening. The following morning, pilgrims walked through the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica, praying for the intentions of the Holy Father. Mass at the St. Joseph altar was beautiful.
But, during the events in the Pope Paul VI audience hall adjacent to St. Peter’s—the same room where the Synod of Bishops completed its study of synodality back in October—things got a little strange.
While the theme adopted by the Vatican for this year’s Jubilee is the theological virtue of hope, it was not surprising that hope was the theme of the talk of the first keynote speaker at Saturday’s “dialogue.”
It was somewhat shocking, though, to hear unfiltered from Maria Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist who was jailed for standing up to fascism in the Philippines. She spoke not on Christ our hope, but a political, secularized consideration of it for communicators, as if we were at the United Nations.
Her story, no doubt, could have been a powerful one, if not for its blatant politicization and bias.
Continued below.
On the strange and politicized Jubilee for the World of Communications
www.catholicworldreport.com
