In L'Osservatore Romano the words of card. Comastri to the employees of the Vatican Dicastery for communication

Communication, as an institutional and support activity for the diffusion of the Gospel and papal messages in every corner of the planet, represents an important sector of commitment of the Holy See.
So L'Osservatore Romano of last December 21 dedicated an article to the mass, presided over the previous day, by Cardinal Angelo Comastri, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica and vicar general of His Holiness for the Vatican City, addressed to the employees of the Dicastery for communication.

The text opens with a quote from the homily itself: «Lord Jesus, we are all equal! Rich or poor, educated or uneducated... What makes us different is goodness. Yes, only goodness makes the difference between people. Lord Jesus, let at least a crumb of goodness grow in us." Contained in the verses of the Triestine poet Umberto Saba (1883-1957) are the coordinates for an authentically Christian Christmas indicated to the employees of the Dicastery by Cardinal Comastri. Present were, among others, the prefect, Paolo Ruffini, and the secretary, Monsignor Lucio Adrian Ruiz. The cardinal - as underlined by L'Osservatore Romano - spoke of the "most challenging "yes" in all of history", the one that "made her make a leap in quality", because with it "God entered the human family by pushing history towards a direction of victory for the good, the meek, the merciful, the pure of heart, the peacemakers", who "will be the true triumphants in the end". Because "God has taken this side - he assured - and this is why we celebrate Christmas and we must rejoice every time it returns".
The celebrant pointed out that "many people on the margins of Christianity have also noticed this"; like Benedetto Croce, who said: «I am a student of history but I must recognize that the only novelty that has appeared is Christianity», that is, Jesus; like Gandhi, who defined the beatitudes as the highest peak of Christian spirituality; like the philosopher Emmanuel Kant, who went so far as to maintain that "the Gospel is the source of our entire civilization". However, added Cardinal Comastri, the message of «Jesus is seen above all in the saints»: starting with Mother Teresa of Calcutta, «an extraordinary woman» of «our time» who «opened a furrow of mercy»: today we there are 762 houses run by its Missionaries of Charity. In 1961 - he recalled - Pasolini and Moravia, very far from the faith, went to India for the centenary of Tagore's birth, they wanted to meet Mother Teresa. And the first said: «Never had the spirit of Christ seemed so alive and fascinating to me as in this little nun: in her a splendidly successful transplant». And upon the death of the saint, on 5 September 1997, Indro Montanelli, «a rather indifferent journalist regarding faith, exclaimed: “If there were a Mother Teresa on every continent, atheists would disappear from the world”. When in 1973, she told the celebrant, she was invited to open a center in Yemen to treat lepers, she accepted immediately. But when at the airport they asked her to remove the crucifix that she kept pinned on the left shoulder of her sari, she replied, pointing to it: «Look, we do everything for him. Either we both come in, or neither of us." Since then, seven nuns have been killed in that house.
The article continues by recalling that the second saint cited by the archpriest of the Vatican basilica was Pio da Pietrelcina, the humble little friar who always lived in the shadow of a convent, who received the stigmata and for fifty years they remained open, making him «a transparent glass through which Jesus could be seen." The third was John XXIII. In October 1962, on the brink of a world war, Soviet ships headed towards Cuba filled with missile warheads to be aimed at the United States. «He got in the way, all night on the phone with Washington and Moscow – the cardinal recalled – and in the end he managed to convince both: peace was saved». Finally, the fourth saint proposed as a model was Don Bosco, who understood that the real problem of today's society is education: "We must prevent evil rather than cure it" by educating young people.