In the text delivered to the participants in this symposium, Pope Francis highlighted that communicating “is the most human way that exists.”
For the Holy Father, it is necessary to take a “pause” from time to time to “share, pray and listen” and thus “rediscover the root of what we communicate, the truth to which we are called to bear witness, the communion that gives us unites in Jesus Christ.”
This, according to the Holy Father, also helps “not to fall into the error of thinking that the object of our communication is our individual strategies or companies; to not lock ourselves in our loneliness, our fears or ambitions; “not to bet everything on technological progress.”
“The challenge of good communication,” the Pontiff remarked, “is now more complex than ever, and the risk is to approach it with a worldly mentality: with an obsession with control, power, success; with the idea that the problems are above all material, technological, organizational, economic.” In this sense, he stressed that it is necessary to “start again from the heart.”