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Vatican prefect: Fast from ‘bulimia’ of words
February 20, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: In a reflection on Pope Leo XIV’s Lenten message, the lay prefect of the Dicastery for Communication spoke of the need to fast from what he called the “bulimia” of careless and hurtful words.
“We rarely think of fasting as renouncing excessive words, verbal violence, the confusion of speaking without listening,” said Paolo Ruffini. “And the fasting that the Pope asks of us concerns precisely the bulimia of these words spoken without thinking, in a vertigo where speed risks mortally wounding every true relationship, and making all authentic communication impossible.”
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