Pope Leo XIV calls for release of imprisoned journalists, affirms gift of free speech and press (www.pbs.org)
from zaxvenz@lemm.ee to world@lemmy.world on 12 May 14:30
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Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press” in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.

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AmidFuror@fedia.io on 12 May 15:14 next collapse

Already at odds with the Trump administration, I see. This after all Trump did to get him elected!

LMurch@thelemmy.club on 12 May 15:23 next collapse

We’re laughing, but Trump is reading this, nodding, saying, “this guy is right. He gets it.”

blakenong@lemmings.world on 12 May 15:31 next collapse

What does Trump think the pope gets?

Akasazh@lemmy.world on 13 May 12:18 collapse

Lots of kiddy diddling

blakenong@lemmings.world on 14 May 01:44 collapse

Oh, yeah that makes sense.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works on 13 May 12:26 next collapse

Trump has already taken credit before that comment

Buddahriffic@sh.itjust.works on 13 May 18:44 collapse

So the “many people” who say things are saying them sarcaatically?

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world on 12 May 15:55 collapse

after all Trump did to get him elected

Wut

Artyom@lemm.ee on 13 May 13:07 collapse

Don’t worry, that was the appropriate reaction.

Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world on 12 May 15:37 next collapse

Thank God he’s not a fascist.

That’s right. I’m relieved the leader of the largest Jesus Christ following religion isn’t a fascist. Because sometimes they are.

Humans suck. But I’ll take a win when we can get it.

Dojan@pawb.social on 12 May 15:59 next collapse

How do we know that he isn’t? Musk proclaims a love of free speech and is a fascist. Trump has repeatedly spoken out against wars, but his wars are OK in his book.

Let’s not celebrate until we’ve crossed the river.

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 12 May 16:09 collapse

Judging by his track record I think he will largely continue Francis’ legacy. Perhaps a bit more conservative than Francis, but I’ve found his statements encouraging for the most part. He’s criticized both JD and Trump in the past, and he seems to be focusing on the more positive Christian teachings like caring for the poor rather than the fire and brimstone wing

PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world on 12 May 21:32 next collapse

He’s just Francis but less friendly to the gays

ayyy@sh.itjust.works on 13 May 15:01 collapse

Francis’s legacy of doing absolutely nothing and continuing to fund and protect known child abusers?

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 13 May 16:57 next collapse

Judging by his time as the bishop of Chiclayo, yeah I expect that to continue, unfortunately

desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 13 May 22:04 collapse

child abuse is a Catholic tradition, that won’t stop anytime soon.

Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 13 May 15:31 next collapse

Being leader of the richest mafia/fishingclub/bureaucracy apperatus should have that as a requirement

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world on 13 May 22:41 collapse

Talk is cheap. It’s very easy for him to say these thing. It’s much harder for him to do anything about it.

On the other hand, he could do something about the child exploitation that’s going on in his church.

the_q@lemm.ee on 12 May 17:04 next collapse

Religious zealot says the right thing while keeping his faith in a organization that diddles kids. More at 11.

Zaktor@sopuli.xyz on 12 May 22:25 next collapse

The Catholic Church, an organization that has always been happy with everyone just being able to express their beliefs without persecution.

tatann@lemm.ee on 12 May 22:50 collapse

/s ?

Zaktor@sopuli.xyz on 12 May 23:02 collapse

…Yes. Of course.

How could that not be a sarcastic statement?

demonsword@lemmy.world on 13 May 12:27 collapse

How could that not be a sarcastic statement?

sometimes it’s hard to be certain

Zaktor@sopuli.xyz on 13 May 21:43 collapse

“The Catholic Church has always loved free speech” is not an extremist position, it’s just factually false. Even people who love the Church acknowledge that the Reformation and Inquisition happened and heretics were burned for expressing “bad” ideas. That people shouldn’t be burned to death for heresy was even one of the statements that got Martin Luther excommunicated.

demonsword@lemmy.world on 14 May 19:08 collapse

you’d be surprised with how many people wouldn’t know any of that and not get the sarcasm contained in your original post

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz on 13 May 12:39 next collapse

Ok Pope, so where on earth are the most journalists being specifically targeted in military strikes and killed?

If you actually cared about journalists you would be speaking up already, coward.

lka1988@sh.itjust.works on 13 May 18:53 next collapse

If you actually cared about journalists you would be speaking up already, coward.

Is this not literally what he did though?

Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz on 13 May 19:30 collapse

The International Federation of Journalists records that 94 journalists and media workers, including 9 women, have been killed in 2023. Since 7 October, more than one journalist a day has lost their lives during the war in Gaza, a scale and pace of loss of media professionals’ lives without precedent. Publishing ahead of International Human Rights Day, on the 10th December, the IFJ insists that far greater action is required from the international community to safeguard journalists’ lives and hold to account their attackers.

ifj.org/…/ninety-four-journalists-killed-in-2023-…

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According to the annual report of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), 2024 was another particularly deadly year for journalists and media professionals. As of 10 December 2024, 104 journalists had been killed worldwide, more than half of them in Gaza, Palestine (55). The IFJ reaffirms its determination to see an International Convention for the Protection of Journalists adopted by the United Nations as a matter of urgency.

ifj.org/…/104-journalists-killed-this-year-accord…

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That is why Pope Leo XIV would speak directly speak about the Palestinian Genocide if he truly cared about journalism and the protection of it and the people who practice it.

SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one on 13 May 22:51 next collapse

Labelling it ‘Middle East and Arab World’ is so fucking disingenuous when it’s Israeli scum butchering journalists. For decades now.

I’m directing this at whomever made the diagram specifically. They can fuck off with that misdirection crap.

lka1988@sh.itjust.works on 13 May 22:56 collapse

So, blatant inaccuracies aside, this doesn’t change the fact that he quite literally did speak up about it, well before your toddler-esque “if he doesn’t say exactly this then he’s against us” rant.

The fact that he said something to begin with is already a step in the right direction. What you’re asking is unrealistic.

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz on 13 May 23:10 collapse

“if he doesn’t say exactly this then he’s against us” rant.

I never said this was a binary choice, or that he was against Palestinians, just that this it is cowardly to not mention the genocide where a historic amount of journalists are being killed.

What you’re asking is unrealistic.

Why precisely is it unrealistic?

hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 13 May 19:48 collapse

he… just… got… the… job…

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz on 13 May 19:52 collapse

Well he found the time to make prouncements about the importance of journalism and protecting journalism, so why not speaking directly to the genocide where the shocking majority of journalists have been killed for the last 3 years at an unprecedented rate and with incredible, naked murderous aims to specifically assassinate journalists?

Your argument is about priorities and amount of time to devote to them, but it doesn’t even make sense as an argument since the pope ALREADY decided to devote time towards emphasizing how important protecting journalism and a free press is, so fundamentally my argument is one of the way he chose to do the thing, not that he should have done one thing before doing another thing.

dogsoahC@lemm.ee on 13 May 15:48 collapse

I know he’s the pope and has to talk like that, but free speech is not a “precious gift”. It’s a hard-won right and “calling for it” is not gonna protect it. I swear to Nonexisto, if this clown gets the credit after the people win the fight, I’m gonna get an aneurism.

Verdorrterpunkt@feddit.org on 13 May 15:54 collapse

Well, i suppose if the free speech in a region has been there for a while, it’s a gift from the people who fought hard for it.

dogsoahC@lemm.ee on 13 May 15:58 collapse

Fair enough. But I’d rather think of it as a torch that has been passed on and has to be guarded and kept ablaze. Lighting it was the hardest part, but the job’s not done.