AAS 80 - La Santa Sede

Acta Ioannis Pauli Pp. II 781
health care, it is up to you to ensure that this "kindness and love o f
God our Savior" remains the heart and soul of Catholic health services.
Through prayer and with God's help, may you persevere in your
commitment, providing professional assistance and selfless personal
care to those who need your services. I pray that your activities
and your whole lives will inspire and help ali the people of America,
working together, to make this society a place of full and absolute
respect for the dignity of every person, from the moment of conception
to the moment of natural death. And may God, in whom "we live and
move and have our being", 11 sustain you by his grace. God bless you
and your families and your contribution to America !
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Angelopoli, ad eos qui operam dant instrumentis communicationis socialis
coram admissos.*
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Communications Industry,
Dear Friends,
1. I am very pleased to be here with you. I would like to be able
to greet each one of you personally and to express my regard for you
individually. Although this is not possible, I wish to express my
sincere respect for ali the catégories of the media that you represent
—the film industry, the music and recording industry, radio, electronic
news, television and all those who inform the world through the
written word—and for the diverse functions that you perforai as
workers, writers, editors, managers and executives. I greet you in the
full range of your activities, from the very visible to the relatively
hidden.
My visit to Los Angeles, and indeed to the United States, would
seem incomplete without this meeting, since you represent one of
the most important American influences on the world today. You do
this in every area of social communications and con tribute thereby
to the development of a mass popular culture. Humanity is profoundly
influenced by what you do. Your activities affect communication
itself: supplying information, influencing public opinion, offering
11 Acts 17:28.
* Die 15 m. Septembris a. 1987.