The Pope thanked journalists in the Vatican for their “sensitivity” in covering church scandals

he Pope Francisco This Monday thanks Vatican-accredited journalists are “gentle” when covering church scandals He called on them “not to ease tensions” within the institution, after taking them into consideration “His travel companions” To cover every visit outside Rome.

“They are some of my travel companions,” Francis said as he received members of the International Association of Journalists in Front of the Vatican (AIGAV, in Italian) in the Clementine Room of the Apostolic Palace.

During a meeting that lasted less than an hour, and included a personal greeting to each of the just over 100 participants, Francis highlighted “the delicacy with which they often talk about church scandals, of which there are.”

The reference comes just one month after the end of the financial scandal in which he was convicted. Cardinal Angelo Becciu After a stormy period of violations around the world.

He said: “I have seen them many times with great kindness, respect, and almost shameful silence. Thank you for this behavior.”

“The beauty of his work on Saint Peter is that it is based on the solidity of responsibility in truth, not on the fragile sands of ideological speech and reading.; It lies in not concealing reality and even its misery, without beautifying tensions but at the same time without creating unnecessary noise, but rather trying to capture what is essential, in light of the nature of the Church. Topics related to the church and the personality of Saint Peter, who is considered the first pope and on whose tomb the Vatican Cathedral was built.

He later suggested: “How very good this is for the People of God, for the simplest people, and for the Church itself, which still has a way to go to communicate better: by witness, even before words.”

And so he thanked the Pope.The effort they put into maintaining that appearance that can see beyond the appearance, Who knows how to capture the essence, who does not want to succumb to the superficiality of stereotypes and pre-prepared infotainment formulas, who prefers, in the difficult search for truth, the easy indexing of facts and ideas according to pre-defined schemes. “