God has never spoken to me audibly. I guess he hasnt spoken to you either.
Why is this?
According to the Bible God has spoken to and spoken through prophets.
Why choose fallible, sinful people to do his communicating?
You would expect a better method of communication would be directly i.e. to speak to each and every one of us directly.
God could implant his perfect message directly into every brain simultaneously.
This would by-pass the need for evangelists of the contradictory world religions.
Then we would all have certain proof of God, and all know exactly what we need to know to be saved, and a clear and perfect understanding of God, life and the universe.
Yet God remains silent. Your thoughts?
I think I could claim to have had communication from God, or at least a guardian angel.
I’ve had 3 “double whammies” which are like a breath going through you in waves from head to foot. Each time it highlighted what someone else was saying, and I still remember the three quotes to this day, word for word, despite the fact they all occurred over 25 years ago.
There have been a couple of “voices” relating to very specific topics eg. “Bob! What’s wrong with being a writer??” when I was complaining in my mind about a lack of vocations. The “voice” was very clear, quite loud (to me - no one else heard it), and it addressed the specific issue of my lack of vocation.
On another occasion I heard “Bob! Is (young lady) SUITED to you??” when I was again complaining, since I had a crush on a certain young lady in the church at that time. The pastor also had been trying to talk me out of it.
However, I suppose a lot of people don’t get these sorts of things, and I might point out that they’re pretty few and far between when they do happen. There have been three, and three only, specific “double whammies” in about 30 years as a Christian. The “voice” might have addressed about 3 specific issues, in the same period of time.
I think in the end it has a lot to do with freedom of choice. If God interfered in all our decisions, we’d hardly be “free agents” (although I’ve got doubts as to how “free” we really are). So He remains silent.
As Dietrich Bonhoeffer put it, God allows “His creature, Man, to push him out of the world on a cross”. In doing so, He very much takes a back seat. You are free to either accept or reject the crucified one, in all His weakness. He won’t be weak when He comes back, mind you, but in the meantime we can make a choice, and without much psychological pressure. There’s not much “fear of God” to be seen when we consider Christ being pushed out of the world on a Roman cross, at the hands of his own religious authorities and his own people. It’s one of the reasons atheists are so contemptuous of our religion. They think God’s weak.
Or as CS Lewis put it, God allows us to slowly and blunderingly work out our problems and solutions, when God Himself could fix it all in the blink of an eye and do it perfectly.
It has to do with personal freedom and personal choice.
Now my own experiences may fly in the fact of that notion, since I claim on a handful of occasions, to have received divine guidance. But note the form - there was no peremptory command, but at the very most “leading questions” - “Bob! What’s wrong with being a writer?”. There was no direct command.
In fact this is one of the ways you can discern the divine from the demonic. Satan is peremptory in his demands. Had the same “guidance” come from the devil, it would have been more along the likes of “Bob! You should be in politics, so get going!”, or “Bob! You’re one of the two witnesses, and don’t you dare doubt my guidance!”. If I acted on either impulse, I’d come to disaster and probably not only for myself.
God’s silence has a lot to do with our freedom of choice, and I think that’s about it.
I share your appreciation of the Pope’s wisdom. 
