Mangochi, 01 September, 2022 / 8:37 pm (ACI Africa).
The Chairman of the Commission for Social Communications of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) has urged Catholic Journalists in the Southern African nation to take their journalism profession as God’s calling.
Bishop Montfort Stima who was speaking during the opening of the 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Malawi’s Association of Catholic Journalists (ACJ) in Nkhatabay on August 26 said, “Don’t be nominal Catholics. Refuse to be bitter; don’t be Catholic politician journalists; be Catholics with a capital C; take your profession as a vocation.”
To fulfill the duties of their profession as a vocation, Bishop Stima encouraged Catholic Journalists in the country to strive for truth and shun social vices including corruption and the championing of “rights” that are inconsistent with Catholic teaching.
“Things like corruption, abortion, gay rights, destructive demonstrations have become a norm,” the Local Ordinary of Malawi’s Mangochi Diocese has been quoted as saying in an August 27 report.
“Your duty as journalists is to form people’s conscience,” the Catholic Bishop who has been at the helm of the Malawian Diocese since February 2014 said during three-day 5th AGM of Malawi’s ACJ that was organized under the theme, “The Role of Journalists in Synodality and Climate Change Resilience”.
