Pope urges media to promote peace

ATHENS

The new Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged the media to promote peace.

Meeting media professionals in Rome, he urged them to promote a kind of communication that “does not seek consensus at all costs, does not use aggressive words, does not follow the culture of competition, and never separates the search for truth from the love with which we must humbly seek it.”

“We must say no to the war of words and images; we must reject the paradigm of war,” he added.

Also mentioning the rapidly growing application of AI in various sectors, the pope pointed out that the enormous potential of AI requires "responsibility and discernment to ensure that it can be used for the good of all, so that it can benefit all of humanity."