Communications, media, social networks…but also encounter, proximity, periphery, witness: these are some of the key words that characterized the encounter organized by the Social Communications Office of the Diocese of Rome in collaboration with the Pauline Center for Communications and Culture and the St. Egidio Community.
Held on 22 May 2014, the purpose of the meeting was to help people reflect on the theme of the 48th World Day of Social Communications: Communication at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter. Introduced by Fr. Walter Insero, the spokesperson of the Diocese of Rome, the day included input from historian Andrea Riccardi, founder of the St. Egidio community, Elisabetta Piqué, foreign correspondent for the Argentine daily newspaper “La Nación,” and Giancarlo Maria Bregantini, Archbishop of the Campobasso-Boiano Diocese, Italy. The event was moderated by Massimiliano Padula, who is in charge of the Press Office of the Pontifical Lateran University.
In keeping with tradition, the evening’s program culminated in the conferral of the Pauline Communications and Culture Award, which this year went to Archbishop Bregantini in recognition of his commitment to focusing his pastoral care on the most needy members of society.
