On 7 March 2024, personalities from the Holy See, journalists, and professors in this particular sector debated during a Webinar/Lab organized by a network of communicators and media professionals to explore the topic in the wake of the Pope’s magisterium.
The last Synod opened the doors of the Church to create and facilitate laboratories. After three years of preparation, the assembly at the Vatican last October gave form and content to the method of synodality, which the Pope had called for, asking that it become the “face” and also the way of expressing ecclesial life at every level, in the sense of a communion that involves all the parishes of the Church from the biggest to the smallest, and, transversally, every cultural and geographical context in which the Gospel is lived. A laboratory which, in a certain sense would be universal, and from which the sphere of communication is no stranger.
In 2023, a diverse group of journalists, communicators and professors launched a workshop in the school of synodality through monthly webinars and labs. “In these encounters,” a note from the organizers explains, “the participants have sought to dialogue and promote in-depth studies and exchanges of experiences among professionals from different newspapers and nationalities, united by the desire to participate in a synodal journey. As Pope Francis said, this means ‘welcoming one another in the awareness that we all have something to witness to and from which to learn.’”