{"id":40968,"date":"2026-05-26T12:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionefratellitutti.org\/?post_type=articles&p=40968"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:13:54","slug":"is-it-possible-to-build-peace-without-truth","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionefratellitutti.org\/en\/articles\/is-it-possible-to-build-peace-without-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it possible to build peace without truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent months, several reporters have been killed while covering conflicts in the Middle East. This is not just a news item: it is a sign. Targeting those who report means targeting the very possibility of seeing.
\nIn this context, the theme of communication once again takes center stage. Not as a technical field, but as a decisive space for the construction or destruction of bonds. The World Meeting on Human Fraternity<\/em> brought this into sharp focus: in a historical moment marked by divisions and conflicts, the truth risks being bent to serve interests or lost in the noise.<\/p>\n

It is against this backdrop that Paolo Ruffini\u2019s remarks take shape.<\/p>\n

A journalist and former director of Rai3 and Tv2000, Ruffini has served as Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See since 2018: the first layperson to lead it. His work has focused on the integration of Vatican media and on a continuous reflection on the relationship between information and responsibility.<\/p>\n

At the Meeting, he proposed a precise formula: \u201cunarmed communication.\u201d <\/em>Not neutral communication, but communication freed from what makes it violent\u2014prejudices, partisan loyalties, and ideological rigidity. The critical point, he observed, is the digital environment in which public opinion is formed today. Algorithms tend to confirm what we already think, creating closed spaces where opinions never truly meet. The consequence is a fragmentation of reality that makes finding common ground increasingly difficult.<\/p>\n

This is why Ruffini speaks of the need to \u201crepair the networks\u201d<\/em>: to train professionals capable of restoring complexity and reconciling truth with responsibility.
\nAt stake is not only the quality of information, but the very possibility of coexistence.<\/p>\n

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Excerpt from the remarks by Paolo Ruffini \u2013 Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See<\/em><\/p>\n

The Weight of Words<\/strong><\/p>\n

This gathering of ours demonstrates the central role of information in shaping what our future will be. The Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See, which I have the honor of leading, has for years been reflecting on the need to broaden the scope of our attention regarding the frontier that the media are called to safeguard. It may seem out of place, in a meeting whose theme is disarming and unarmed communication, to speak of a frontier.<\/p>\n

Yet this is precisely the point: the boundary\u2014in our case\u2014between good journalism and bad journalism, between idle chatter and analysis, between the patient search for truth and the hasty dissemination of spoiled news. Between a communication system founded on the sharing of truth and a system founded on indifference to truth. Between the clash of opinions and campaigns of hate, defamation, and murderous attacks. Between the defense of one\u2019s own identity and the denial of others\u2019.<\/p>\n

Thus\u2014especially when considering the meaning of the word \u201cdisarmed\u201d\u2014it is worth reflecting on the very root of the word \u201cweapon.\u201d To free it from what Pope Francis has called the \u201cparadigm of war.\u201d For the word \u201carm\u201d derives from the Latin arma<\/em>, which had more than one meaning and also referred to peaceful instruments and tools.<\/p>\n

The Proto-Indo-European root ar- <\/em>has an even broader meaning: it means to adapt and also to unite. We find evidence of this in idioms that have come down to us: to arm oneself with courage, patience, goodwill, intelligence, and truth.<\/p>\n

Each of these tells us\u2014implicitly\u2014what we must disarm ourselves of and what we must arm ourselves with.<\/p>\n

Disarmament is not synonymous with surrender. Pope Francis has stated that communication must be disarmed of all prejudice, resentment, aggression, fanaticism, and hatred; freed from the intoxication of deceptive simplifications; and from the paradigm of the will to dominate, possess, and manipulate.<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV echoed these words, saying: \u201cLet us disarm words, and we will help to disarm the Earth.\u201d If we are here today, it is to contribute together to a reflection on the real possibility of this disarmament in the increasingly asymmetrical competition that characterizes the communication system. Algorithms capable only of computation risk becoming the guardians of our thoughts, trapping us in so-called \u201cfilter bubbles\u201d\u2014unwitting prisoners of an artificial world shaped by our fleeting, momentary preferences.<\/p>\n

A world without true freedom, where no opinion is formed to be debated or even changed, but only to be confirmed, in an endless game of mirrors with no beginning or end. A world that seeks to change us from within, along with the rules of civil coexistence and the economy.<\/p>\n

Dominant business models have shifted the focus from quality to speed, from informative content to attention-grabbing content: sensationalist headlines, clickbait, scandals. But if true and false take on the same appearance, what principles govern the business of algorithms?<\/p>\n

What criteria govern the indexing and de-indexing policies of search engines capable of elevating or erasing people and opinions, stories and cultures?<\/p>\n

The latest Reuters Digital News Reports show us that people are shifting their attention toward what they believe deserves it. And since the news is no longer trustworthy, they are instead seeking educational, inspiring content that rekindles hope.<\/p>\n

Herein lies the challenge: to resist the erosion and corruption of communication; to restore substance to the news and a sense of hope to every narrative. For this reason, I hope that this meeting will be followed by others. The Dicastery for Communication is deeply committed to fostering and promoting, in the appropriate forums, a free, elevated, serious, concrete, and sustained dialogue on all these matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40987,"template":"","tags":[],"categories":[434,212],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIs it possible to build peace without truth? - Fondazione Fratelli tutti<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionefratellitutti.org\/en\/articles\/is-it-possible-to-build-peace-without-truth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is it possible to build peace without truth? - Fondazione Fratelli tutti\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In recent months, several reporters have been killed while covering conflicts in the Middle East. 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