ARCHBISHOP ON COMMUNICATIONS, SILENCE, GLOBALIZATION

VATICAN CITY, NOV 7, 2004 (VIS) - Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, spoke today at the International Media Conference 2004, organized in Castelgandolfo by the Focolare Movement on the theme "Silence, Word and Light: At the Source of Communication."

  He said that "to be credible communicators of the most important message the world has ever received and can ever receive, we must be men and women of silence - of silent reflection, of quiet observation, of unobtrusive charity. Too many today think and speak superficially, from the surface alone. We must speak from the depths of our being, from the depths of our faith. Even of Jesus, it is written: 'The light shone in darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it'. … We too speak in the darkness; it is important that we do not speak from the darkness. We seek to communicate to our own, and often our word is not received."

  On Thursday, November 4, Archbishop Foley gave a round-table address during a theological study of St. Anthony, at the saint's shrine in Padua. He spoke on the "Catholic Mass Media in an Age of Globalization: What are the Challenges and Responsibilities?"
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