By Vatican standards, it’s a small revolution: A pontifical council is holding a major assembly without prepared speeches.
Participants in the Pontifical Council for Culture’s mid-November plenary meeting have been told to prepare for free discussion instead. The main theme of the encounter is communication, and someone decided that the old model — hours of reading prepared texts — just wasn’t working anymore.
Full story by John Tavis at Catholic News Service here.

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