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March 16, 2012

What We Hear in Silence

Cardinal Wuerl, Seek First the Kingdom

In his 2012 message for World Communications Day, Pope Benedict XVI promoted something that seems almost impossible in today’s cacophonous world – silence.

The Holy Father said that in our digital world of websites, applications and social media, we need to make “space for silence and occasions for prayer, meditation or sharing the word of God.”

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