Your work can be a force for great good or great evil. You yourselves know the dangers,as well as the splendid opportunities open to you. Communication products can be works of great beauty, revealing what is noble and uplifting in humanity and promoting what is just and fair and true. On the other hand communications can appeal to and promote what is debased in people … All the media of popular culture which you represent can build or destroy, uplift or cast down. You have untold possibilities for good, ominous possibilities for destruction. It is the difference between death and life – the death or life of the spirit. And it is a matter of choice. The challenge of Moses to the people of Israel is applicable to all of us today: "I set before you life and death.... Choose life" (Dt 30:19). Pope John Paul II
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While Pope John Paul II was speaking to journalists and all those involved in some form of media, his words are applicable to any work in which we engage, and to the message of our lives.
