During Lent, Catholics are called on to give up something, like sweets. On Wedne...
Pope Francis waves during the weekly general audience at Vatican, February 26, 2020. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
The pope made his appeal to tone things down while speaking to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square for his general audience on Ash Wednesday, the start of the 40-day season that leads up to Easter. “We live in an atmosphere polluted by too much verbal violence, too many offensive and harmful words, which are amplified by the internet,” he said. “Today, people insult each other as if they were saying ‘Good Day.’”
Twitter has also become a platform for sometimes pitched verbal battles between his supporters and detractors.
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