The Pope praised what he referred to as the “mission” of journalism and mentioned it was important for reporters to get out of their newsrooms and uncover what was taking place within the outdoors world to counter misinformation typically discovered on-line.
“(I) thanks for what you inform us about what’s fallacious within the Church, for serving to us to not sweep it beneath the carpet, and for the voice you have got given to the abuse victims,” the Pope mentioned.
Francis was talking at a ceremony to honor two veteran correspondents — Philip Pullella of Reuters and Valentina Alazraki of Mexico’s Noticieros Televisa — for his or her lengthy careers spent overlaying the Vatican.
The sexual abuse scandals hit the headlines in 2002, when US each day The Boston Globe wrote a sequence of articles exposing a sample of abuse of minors by clerics and a widespread tradition of concealment throughout the Church.
Francis on Saturday mentioned journalists had a mission “to clarify the world, to make it much less obscure, to make those that reside in it much less concern it.”
To do this, he mentioned reporters wanted to “escape the tyranny” of at all times being on-line. “Not every part may be advised via e mail, the cellphone, or a display,” he mentioned.
