{"id":5022,"date":"2010-10-07T19:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T19:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/your-task-dear-members-of-the-catholic-press.html"},"modified":"2010-10-07T19:41:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T19:41:35","slug":"your-task-dear-members-of-the-catholic-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/your-task-dear-members-of-the-catholic-press.html","title":{"rendered":"“Your task, dear members of the Catholic press…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“My very dear brothers and sisters, whoever works in the media, if he does not wish to be “a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1) — as Saint Paul would say — must have well-rooted in himself the underlying option that enables him to deal with the things of the world placing God always at the top of the scale of values. The times we are living through — despite having a notable positive weight, because the threads of history are in God’s hands and his eternal design is ever more revealed — are also marked by many shadows. Your task, dear members of the Catholic press, is to help contemporary man to orient himself to Christ, only Savior, and to keep burning the flame of hope in the world, to live worthily our today and to build the future appropriately.”<\/p>\n

— Pope Benedict, October 7, 2010, speaking to Catholic journalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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