Cleric Harps On Enhanced Communication At Family Level

The National President,
    Association of Catholic Directors of Communication, Rev. Fr. Pius Ukor, has stressed the need for enhanced communication at the family level.
Ukor said that enhanced communication at the family level would help to build a better society.
He spoke on Sunday in Onitsha, at a thanksgiving service to commemorate the World Communication Day at the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity.
He noted that with enhanced communication and openness at the family level, most of the irresolvable frictions, disagreement and war within the society would not occur.
“The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.
“The latter is a tendency which our important, influential modern communications and the media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough,’’ he said.
He said the family is not a terrain for ideological skirmishes, but a rich human resource.
“ Once we realise this, we will once more be able to see how the family continues to be a rich human resource, as opposed to a problem or an institution of crisis.’’
Ukor, who is also the Director of Social Communications in Onitsha Catholic Archdiocese, advised journalists to be objective, and to always balance their stories.
“For our hardworking journalists, we will continue to pray for your safety as you carry out your duty for the good and betterment of our society especially in Anambra ,’’ he said.
The highlights of the thanksgiving service were cutting of a cake and group photograph between the clergy and journalists in Anambra.