Pope Benedict XVI Encourages the Mission of Catholic Radio

(20 June 08 - RV) Pope Benedict XVI today addressed at group of participants attending a conference underway at the Vatican dedicated to Catholic Radio saying their work was at the service of the Word of God. Lydia O’Kane reports.
Speaking to the participants from the International Conference dedicated to Catholic Radio, sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Pope Benedict used his own communication skills to great effect addressing those present in four languages.


The Holy Father began by stressing the important work the participants were doing in using Radio as a tool to broadcast the word of God.Dear friends, as you work in Catholic radio stations you are at the service of the Word. The words that you broadcast each day are an echo of that eternal Word which became flesh. Your own words will bear fruit only to the extent that they serve the eternal Word, Jesus Christ. In God’s saving plan and providence, that Word lived among us, or – as St. John says – “pitched his tent among us” (Jn 1:14), in humility. The Incarnation took place in a distant village, far away from the noisy imperial cities of antiquity.

The Pope went on to say that even in a world with increasingly modern technologies the power of the Word remains constant.


Today, even though you make use of modern communication technologies, the words which you broadcast are also humble, and sometimes it may seem to you that they are completely lost amidst the competition of other noisy and more powerful mass media.