The ethical responsibilities of the media today have been recalled by the Pope in his speech to the streets of Spain for the traditional homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception on 8 December. "Every day - denounced Pope Benedict XVI - through newspapers, television, radio, evil is told, repeated, amplified, accustomed to the most horrible things, making us insensitive and, in some way intoxicated, because the negative is not fully disposed of, and day by day builds up. hardens the heart and thoughts will darken.
"In the city they live or survive - continued the Pope - invisible people, who occasionally jump on the front page or on television, and are exploited to the last, until the news and image attract attention. It is a perverse mechanism, which unfortunately is hard to resist. The city first and then hides exposes to the public. No mercy, or with a false piety. "For Pope Ratzinger," but there is in every man's desire to be accepted as a person and considered a sacred reality, because all human history is a sacred story, and requires the greatest respect ".
" The media - the Pope pointed out bitterly - tend to make us feel more 'spectator, as if evil to apply only to others, and certain things could never happen to us. Instead - he articulated - we are all 'actors, and in the better and for worse, our behavior has an influence on others. We often complain of air pollution, which in some places of the city is unbearable.
is true: it takes the commitment of all levels to clean up the city. Yet there is more pollution, less perceptible to the senses, but equally dangerous is the pollution of the spirit is what makes our faces not smiling, darker, which leads us to greet each of us, not look in the face ".
Through the distorted lens of the media, said the Pope in front of the crowd," See you all on the surface. People become bodies, and these bodies lose the soul, become things, objects without a face, and exchangeable consumables. "Immaculate Mary - said Benedict XVI - helps us to rediscover the depth and defend the people, because in it there is perfect transparency of the body. It is the purity in person, in that spirit, soul and body are you fully consistent with each other and with God's will I pay tribute publicly - has spoggiunto - anyone in silence, not with words but with facts, we strive to practice this evangelical law of love, who runs the world. There are many, even here in Rome, and rarely make the headlines. Men and women of all ages who have understood that you do not need to condemn, complain, complain, but it's worth more to respond to evil with good. This change things, or rather, it changes people and, consequently, improve the company. "
" Dear Friends, Romans, and all of you who live in this city - has called the Pope addressed the approximately 20 thousand audience that crowded despite the rain Today Afternoon Piazza di Spagna, Piazza Mignanelli, Via Condotti and Via Frattina - while we are busy in daily activities, pay orecchioalla voice of Mary. We listen to his quiet but urgent appeal. She tells everyone: where sin abounded, grace may abound, starting from your heart and your life. "So the city, he assured," will be more beautiful, more Christian, more human. "
"The city - ha continuato il Papa con voce ferma - è fatta di volti, ma purtroppo le dinamiche collettive possono farci smarrire la percezione della loro profondità. Nel cuore delle città cristiane, Maria costituisce una presenza dolce e rassicurante. Con il suo stile discreto dona a tutti pace e speranza nei momenti lieti e tristi dell'esistenza. Nelle chiese, nelle cappelle, sulle pareti dei palazzi: un dipinto, un mosaico, una statua ricorda la presenza della Madre che veglia costantemente sui suoi figli. Anche qui, in Piazza di Spagna, Maria è posta in alto, quasi a vegliare su Roma".
"Cosa dice Maria alla città? Cosa ricorda a tutti con la sua presenza?", si è chiesto il Pontefice teologo. "Ricorda - è stata la risposta - che 'dove abbondò il peccato, sovrabbondò la grazià. Ella è la Madre Immacolata che ripete anche agli uomini del nostro tempo: non abbiate paura, Gesù ha
vinto il male; l'ha vinto alla radice, liberandoci dal suo dominio". "Quanto abbiamo bisogno - ha concluso - di questa bella notizia. La città ha bisogno di Maria, che con la sua presenza ci parla di Dio, ci ricorda la vittoria della Grazia sul peccato, e ci induce a sperare anche nelle situazioni umanamente più difficili".
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