"Being the best person you can be, the best journalist you can be and, without regard to the suffering, persercution or misunderstandings you will have to suffer, preserving and communicating an attitude of joy, an experienced joy". This is, for mgr. John Patrick Foley, the "beautiful message" of the biography of Manuel Lozano Garrido, aka "Lolo", a Spanish journalist who was seriously disabled for the second half of his comparatively short lifetime, who died aged 51 and who is now a "nominee" for canonisation. Speaking in Rome today, at the presentation of the book "The experienced joy", in which Rafael Higueras Alamo and Pedro Camara Ruiz tell his story, Foley lingered on the concurrence of today’s event and the release (also today) of the Pope’s first message for the World Social Communications Day about "Mass media: a communication, communion and cooperation network". "Lolo", said the Vatican delegate, "was a committed and very talented professional who went through a difficult time and who proved to be heroic by trying to spread the truth as he had understood it. In addition, he suffered from progressive palsy in the last half of his lifetime and he eventually became blind. All through this time, he preserved a spirit of joy and peace. Insofar as I am concerned, I have no doubths he should be considered a saint".
