In a message to an Italian newspaper, the Pope urged journalists to resist ‘artificial polarizations’ and serve as ‘instruments of truth.’
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV defended the importance of rigorous journalism against “the drug of fake news” and “artificial polarizations” in a message to the Italian newspaper L’Adige on the occasion of its 80th anniversary, celebrated Tuesday.
In his message to the newspaper, the Pope urged journalists to “safeguard voices and faces, cultivate seriousness in every report and every analysis, preserve the beauty of cultures and territories.”
He also called on them to “strengthen communities in the truth that unites us all, govern technology without surrendering to the rhetoric of uniform thought, respect differing opinions, never yield to the temptation to make greater profits by resorting to the drug of fake news and artificial polarizations.”
“In the time of great changes that we are experiencing, I wish your newspaper always to be an instrument of truth, a guardian of history and memory, a source of knowledge and a leaven of humanity,” the Pope wrote, calling on the newspaper to meet the challenge of information with “quality.”
In his letter, Leo also recalled the origins of the newspaper
