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Pope Leo XIV marked the 60th World Day of Social Communications on Sunday, calling on people everywhere to foster forms of communication that “respect the truth of the human person.”
The pontiff was speaking to faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray the Regina Caeli, the traditional noonday prayer of Marian devotion at Eastertide.
Leo XIV chose “Preserving Human Voices and Faces” as the theme of this year’s Communications Day, a theme that has emerged as central to his thinking and action throughout his pontificate, from the very first day.
“In this era of artificial intelligence,” Leo said Sunday, “I encourage everyone to commit themselves to promoting forms of communication that always respect the truth of the human person, on which every technological innovation should be focused.”
Leo XIV issued his Message for World Communications Day earlier this year – not incidentally on January 24, the feast of St. Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church and patron of the Catholic press – in which he called for “faces and voices to speak for people again.”
“We need to cherish the gift of communication as the deepest truth of humanity,” Leo XIV wrote in his Message, “to which
