Vatican City (Vatican), January 25 (LaPresse) – "Find a cure for the addiction to constant scrolling on social media." This is Pope Francis' call to journalists and communicators during his speech at the Jubilee of Communication. Pope Francis added: "We need media literacy to educate ourselves and others in critical thinking, the patience of discernment necessary for understanding, and to promote personal growth and active participation in shaping the future of our communities. We need courageous entrepreneurs, courageous computer engineers, so that the beauty of communication is not corrupted. Great changes cannot result from a multitude of sleeping minds but rather begin with the communion of enlightened hearts." Then came his invitation: "Let your storytelling also be hopetelling. When you recount evil, leave room for the possibility of mending what is torn, for the dynamism of good that can repair what is broken. Sow questions. Telling hope means seeing crumbs of goodness hidden even when everything seems lost, it means allowing hope against all hope. It means noticing sprouts emerging when the ground is still covered in ashes. Telling hope means having a gaze that transforms things, making them into what they could and should be. It means guiding things toward their destiny."
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