On 19 May, the encounter The Church Listens to the City: Journalists and Communicators Pursue the Synodal Path, was held at the Church of the Artists in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo.
The event was organized by the Social Communications Office of the Vicariate of Rome in collaboration with the Pauline Communications and Culture Association and under the patronage of the Order of Journalists for the Lazio region, as part of the agenda for Communications Week in preparation for the 56th World Communications Day, whose theme this year, chosen by Pope Francis, is Listening with the Ear of the Heart. One of the most significant talks for the occasion was that of Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, the Pope’s vicar for the diocese of Rome.
During the event, the Pauline Communications and Culture Award 2022 was awarded in memory of David Sassoli, an Italian journalist and politician.
The award reads, “In celebration of the memory of David Sassoli who, in his service as a journalist and politician, always knew how to listen to people and situations ‘with the ear of the heart.’ He believed in information as a vehicle of values and freedom, actively participating in the cause of the common good with indomitable curiosity and passion. As the Holy Father says, ‘Communication does not take place if listening has not taken place, and there is no good journalism without the ability to listen.’”
The Pauline Communications and Culture Award, one of events of Communications Week, which is organized annually by the FSPs and SSPs of Italy, is awarded each year to a person or association that has best expressed the Pope’s message for World Communications Day through their life, work or activities.
