Posts Tagged ‘St Francis de Sales’

Pope chooses ‘Listen’ as theme for World Communications Day

Monday, October 4th, 2021

In the search for truth, Catholic communicators must learn how to listen above all else, the Vatican said. “Listen” will be the theme for the 2022 celebration of World Communications Day, said the statement released Sept. 29. A papal message on the theme should be published on or around the Jan. 24 feast of St Read more

St Francis de Sales’s solution for our public discourse

Monday, February 25th, 2019
st francis de sales political discourse

There are many words to describe the state of the political discourse today—degraded and debased, vicious and vacuous. “Virtuous,” however, is not among them. There is virtue-signaling, to be sure, but turn on the news or log onto Twitter and you will undoubtedly find politicians and pundits engaged in verbal combat or thinly veiled self-congratulation. Read more