{"id":7627,"date":"2022-05-09T12:20:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/combonimission.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=7627"},"modified":"2022-05-06T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:22:23","slug":"pope-francis-listening-is-a-dimension-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/05\/09\/pope-francis-listening-is-a-dimension-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: \u201cListening is a dimension of love\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his Message for the World Day of Social Communications, scheduled this year for Sunday, May 29, Pope Francis says listening is an indispensable first step in human communication, and a dimension of love.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cListening is the first indispensable ingredient of dialogue and good communication. Communication does not take place if listening has not taken place, and there is no good journalism without the ability to listen,\u201d Pope Francis said in his 2022 message for 56th World Day of Social Communication, reminding communicators that \u201cListening is a dimension of love.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Themed, \u201cListening with the ear of the heart,\u201d the Pope says that \u201clistening means not only the perception of sound, but is essentially linked to the dialogical relationship between God and humanity,\u201d pointing out St. Paul\u2019s message to the Romans that \u201cfaith comes through listening.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the message, Pope Francis reminds Catholic communicators that \u201cIn order to provide solid, balanced, and complete information, it is necessary to listen for a long time (and]) to recount an event or describe an experience in news reporting, it is essential to know how to listen, to be ready to change one\u2019s mind and to modify one\u2019s initial assumptions.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He further urges journalists to put aside monologues and allow listening to various voices so that communication can be achieved saying \u201cListening to several sources, \u201cnot stopping at the first tavern\u201d as the experts in the field teach us, ensures the reliability and seriousness of the information we transmit.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He continues, \u201cListening to several voices, listening to each other, even in the Church, among brothers and sisters, allows us to exercise the art of discernment, which always appears as the ability to orient ourselves in a symphony of voices.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pope Francis warns about eavesdropping and spying which he says is a kind of hearing and not listening but a way of \u201cexploiting others for our own interests.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Holy Father, eavesdropping \u201cis an ever-present temptation that nowadays seems to have become more acute in the age of social networks,\u201d but \u201cwhat specifically makes communication good and fully human is listening to the person in front of us, face to face, listening to the other person whom we approach with fair, confident, and honest openness.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe lack of listening, which we experience so often in daily life, is unfortunately also evident in public life, where, instead of listening to each other, we often talk past one another,\u201d the Pope said, adding that \u201cThis is a symptom of the fact that, rather than seeking the true and the good, consensus is sought; rather than listening, one pays attention to the audience.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He emphasizes that, \u201cGood communication does not try to impress the public with a soundbite, with the aim of ridiculing the other person, but pays attention to the reasons of the other person and tries to grasp the complexity of reality.\u201d At the same time, he laments that \u201ceven in the Church, ideological alignments are formed and listening disappears, leaving sterile opposition in its wake.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In his observation, many times people do not communicate but \u201cWe simply wait for the other person to finish speaking in order to impose our point of view.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Holy Father concluded that, “with the awareness that we participate in a communion that precedes and includes us, we can rediscover a symphonic Church, in which each person is able to sing with his or her own voice, welcoming the voices of others as a gift to manifest the harmony of the whole that the Holy Spirit composes.”<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The annual World Day of Social Communication was established by Pope Paul VI in 1967 to raise awareness of the possibilities that the mass media have to bridge the gap in society.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his Message for the World Day of Social Communications, scheduled this year for Sunday, May 29, Pope Francis says listening is an indispensable first step in human communication, and a dimension of love.\u00a0 \u201cListening is the first indispensable ingredient of dialogue and good communication. Communication does not take place if listening has not taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}