On a ‘penitential pilgrimage’
Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of the Dicastery for Communication, wrote in Vatican News on what the pope meant when he described his apostolic trip to Canada from July 24 to 30 as a “penitential pilgrimage”:
“The key to understanding the papal journey lies in the penitential attitude that will characterise its high points. It is the same attitude Benedict XVI suggested in 2010 in the face of the child abuse scandal; the same that St John Paul II proposed during the Jubilee of 2000 for the ‘purification of memory’, when he asked for ‘an act of courage and humility in recognising the wrongs done by those who have borne or bear the name of Christian’.”
Digital media, ethical issues
In a message to the annual world congress of the lay communications network SIGNIS in Seoul, Pope Francis, while agreeing that modern means of…
