ROME – In a rare session with members of the Vatican press corps, Pope Francis thanked journalists for their work, urging them to base their reporting on “the solid rock of responsibility in truth” rather than “the fragile sand of gossip and ideological readings".
In the first-of-its-kind meeting during Francis’s 11-year papacy on 22 January, the pontiff told journalists they were, in a sense, at home in the Vatican and called them his “travel companions”, as many accompany the Pope on board papal flights during his international travels.
