Rome, Italy, Oct 6, 2010 / 10:49 am
In being truthful, transparent and loyal, the Church will be able to renew and purify itself from moral problems, Fr. Federico Lombardi said as he listed the Church's priorities for responding to controversy at a conference on Tuesday.
The Vatican's spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi, addressed the Pontifical Council for Social Communication's Catholic Press Congress on Tuesday afternoon. His address was delivered as part of a series of presentations made by panel members who examined the topic "Ecclesial Communion and Controversies. Freedom of Expression and the Truth of the Church."
After describing some of the ways the Holy See's communications operations have adapted to a faster, more diverse and highly globalized news environment, he asserted that a strong grasp of the "correct 'hierarchy' of themes" is necessary for understanding the place of the different debates within the Church.
Topping the list of "essential priorities" for the Church, he explained, are matters relating to "God and the religious dimension of man (faith as a friend of reason), Jesus Christ who reveals to us the true face of God (God is love), and ecumenism as loyalty to the command of Christ."