In his first meeting with the press since he was elected, Robert Francis has not overvalued his first applause.
O Pope Leo XIV was for the first time with journalists, Since it was last Thursday.
The first official hearing took place on the morning of Monday, before thousands of journalists gathered at the Paulo VI hall.
In this debut, Leo XIV was greeted with a huge salary of applause and soon left a first sign to journalists: humor. “They say it doesn’t matter much if they clap at the beginning. If, in the end, they are still awake and still want to applaudThank you very much ” – were your first words, after thanking the“ wonderful reception ”you had.
More seriously, the Pope asked for the release of arrested journalists and “safeguarding the precious good of freedom of expression and the press” during an audience with the media that accompanied the conclave.
The first American pope said he wanted to “reiterate the solidarity of the church to arrested journalists for looking for and reporting the truth ”, asking for their release.
“The church recognizes in these testimonies – I think of those who narrate war, even at the expense of their own lives – the courage of those who defend the dignity, justice and the right of peoples to be informed, because only informed people can make free decisions,” said Robert Francis Prevost in his message.
“The suffering of these arrested journalists challenges the awareness of the nations and the international community and calls us all to safeguard the precious value of freedom of expression and the press,” he added.
The 69-year-old and elected four days ago began his message with the words: “Blessed are those who work for peace,” asking the press professionals to “use one Different type of communicationlet it not seek consensus at all costs, not to be reviewed of aggressive words, that does not embrace the model of competition and never separate the search for the truth of the love with which we should humbly look for it. ”
For Leo XIV, The way we communicate is of fundamental importanceso one must “say no to the war of words and images.”
Admitting that the world is “living difficult times to navigate and communicate”, the Pope remembered journalists who “are at the front line”when they narrate conflicts and hopes of peace or situations of injustice and poverty.
Therefore, he asked them to “consciously and bravely choose the path of Peace Communication“Having been applauded by journalists at various times in the speech.
Leão XIV also pointed out that the immense potential of technological developments and from artificial intelligence requires responsibility e discernment.
A theme he had already addressed over the weekend, when he explained that the choice of his Pope name was due to the fact that he believed that the church is currently facing the challenges of “another industrial revolution” which is the development of artificial intelligence.
“Pope Leo XIII, with the historic encyclical ‘Rerum Novarum’, addressed the social issue in the context of the first major industrial revolution and today the Church offers all its legacy of social doctrine to respond to a new industrial revolution and the developments of artificial intelligence, which brings new challenges in the defense of human dignity, justice and work,” he concluded.
