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Benedict XVI: Media should communicate wisdom. It is urgent to communicate messages of wisdom, that is, messages inspired by truth, goodness and beauty. Pope Benedict XVI recalled this today to culture …More
Benedict XVI: Media should communicate wisdom.

It is urgent to communicate messages of wisdom, that is, messages inspired by truth, goodness and beauty. Pope Benedict XVI recalled this today to culture and media workers during the reflection of the general audience dedicated to medieval English theologian John of Salisbury.
Benedict referred to the theologian's writings on the objective and unchangeable truth that is in God, which is accessible to human reason and concerns practical and social action. The English theologian would remind us today to be conformed to natural law and equity, he said: only those laws that defend the sacredness of human life and reject the legitimacy of abortion, euthanasia and unrestricted genetic experiments; the laws that respect the dignity of marriage between a man and a woman, inspired by a correct understanding of the secularism of the State and seek subsidiarity and solidarity at the national and international level.
"Otherwise, concluded the Pope, we would ultimately establish the dictatorship of relativism, which has as its ultimate criterion only the self and its desires".