As Pope Leo spoke, I thought about something happening in most every religious congregation I know, namely, the conscious choice of non-violent speech. This is something Sisters, in particular, have taken time and made special efforts to learn. In the Pope's address he gives journalists a sense of their true vocation and how truly he esteems that. There was no doubt that Leo appreciates the importance of the vocation of the journalist and especially in its relation to conveying truth so that peace may prevail. In the above address Leo stresses the importance of journalists not giving themselves over to ideological and partisan language or language marked by hatred, etc. It was wonderfully refreshing to hear the press being called to represent something our world truly needs from them, while honoring them for precisely this vocation.
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