World Communications Day 2025: Create the Condition for Dialogue
The Vatican Press Office released the theme of the Catholic Church’s 59th World Communications Day, celebrated on the Sunday before Pentecost. In 2025 the day will be celebrated on June 1. Pope Francis chose the theme Share with Gentleness the Hope that is in Your Hearts, communication that creates the condition for dialogue. The theme comes from the First Letter of Peter (3:15-16).
The theme aims to bring attention to the fact that in today's world, "too often communication is violent, aimed at striking and not at establishing the conditions for dialogue." This theme calls for efforts "to disarm communication, to cleanse it of aggression."
According to reports in Vatican News, the notes describing the theme holds that the prevailing standard seems to be that of competition, opposition, and domination as can be seen in television talk shows to verbal wars on social media. It adds that for Christians, "hope is a person, and He is Christ." This hope is tied to community, since "when we speak of Christian hope, we cannot disregard a community that lives the message of Jesus in such a credible way as to give a glimpse of the hope that it brings, and is capable of communicating the hope of Christ with deeds and words even today."
World Communications Day was established by Pope St. Paul VI in 1967 following the Second Vatican Council as an annual celebration that encourages reflection on the opportunities and challenges that the media offer and how the Church can better communicate the Gospel message.
