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Statistics increasingly indicate that excessive television use is having a negative effect on children. Limiting its influence may help children learn many new skills.

The Synod on Synodality is primarily a process for becoming a better church. The synod is needed, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory said, “because, frankly, there have been times when the church in our modern day has not been truthful, welcoming, loving and merciful.”

As children get older, the number of voiced opinions in homes seem to grow and the dynamics of decision-making may drastically change.

Supporters and detractors of the synodal process to which Pope Francis has invited all Catholics are feasting in a bewildering ocean of voices and opinions. To be true to the process, participants in the synod should remain open to listening to all Catholic voices.

While Valentine’s Day is culturally celebrated as a romantic holiday, attorneys have cited the week, and particularly the day after, as driving an uptick of people contacting law firms to file for divorce — a phenomenon some call a “Valentine’s Effect.”

One of the many challenges in communication is to be prepared for the intense effort required to effectively communicate in a world that often misunderstands or is reluctant to understand.

Here is the text released by the Vatican of a speech Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, gave at a dinner Oct. 19 with the CEO of EWTN and with Europe-based employees of its various media outlets.

Media outlets that identify as Catholic must live “in a spirit of communion” with the pope, especially at a time of “overly dramatic debates, also within the Church, which do not even spare the person and the magisterium of the pontiff,” the Vatican secretary of state said.