Pope: Vatican Postal and
Telephone Services promote spread of Christian message
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| Pope Francis meets on Thursday with personnel of the Vatican Post Office and the Vatican Telephone Service (Vatican Media) |
Pope Francis receives employees and managers of Vatican City
State's postal and telecommunications services.
By Vatican News
Pope Francis thanked employees of the Vatican
Post Office and the Vatican
Telephone Servicefor the work they do, which he said goes far beyond “the
small territory and the small population” living in the Vatican City State.
The Vatican and the Holy See, he said, “recognize the
important function of the means of communication and of international bodies
that encourage communication.” Through the work of the postal and telephone
services of the Vatican Pope Francis said, many people are able to “reach” the
Pope; and similarly, the Pope is able to reach out to people throughout the
world.
The service of telephone and postal employees, he said,
helps to “create bridges between different cultures, religions, and societies.”
Additionally, they “guarantee the sharing of feeling and ideas; contribute to
promoting mutual understanding and collaboration between countries of the
different continents; and facilitate the exchange” not only of physical goods,
but especially of “their respective spiritual and cultural values.” In this
way, he said, “the postal and telephone services of one of the smallest
countries in the world promote the spread of the Christian message.”
Finally, Pope Francis noted that many of the employees work
directly with people, and remarked on the importance of the example of their
“simple but incisive Christian witness.” Working in the Vatican, he said,
constitutes “an extra commitment to cultivating one’s faith,” even outside of
the workspace. In particular, he invited all those present, along with their
co-workers, “to ensure that every one of your families is a ‘little church,’ in
which faith and life intertwine in the unfolding of both the joyful and
sorrowful event of every day life.”
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