THE MEDIA AND SPERIPHERIES

"When the media spotlight moves around the world according to political opportunities, are there not miseries buried in the sand, forgotten wars, lost solidarities? This question, already asked by Cardinal Etchegaray to journalists, seems to have accompanied us in the evolution of this work. Dabbling and doubting, the Catholic Church has gradually come to take in hand the instruments of communication, to structure its authorities, to provide itself with human and technical means and to clarify its mission and vision through a series of documents. Pope Francis asks all the faithful, including journalists, to go out to the peripheries. Going out to the peripheries for the journalist means applying the criterion of "proximity" in all its geographical, socio-political, cultural, psycho-affective, and chronological senses. Going out as a Catholic journalist means leaving the usual centers to find the geographical and existential peripheries, to speak of the poor to give them an identity and to make their needs important, in short, to give them a voice