“There are camps in Libya”, “we must think about migration policy” and Europe must do it together, “the European Union must come to an agreement” avoiding that the burden falls only on some countries such as “Italy and Spain”. The Pope said this in answering Fabio Fazio’s questions at Che Tempo Che Fa.
“We miss touching miseries and touching them leads us to heroism, I think doctors and nurses have touched evil during the pandemic and have chosen to stay there. Touch is the fullest sense”. Thus the pontiff at Che tempo che fa. “To touch is to take charge of the other”.
“We must take charge of Mother Earth: the fishermen of San Benedetto del Tronto who came to me once found tons of plastic and cleaned up that stretch of sea. Throwing plastic into the sea is criminal, it kills the earth, we must protect biodiversity, we must take care of creation “.
“I like the classics, a lot. And I like the tango.” Pope Francis said this, answering a question from Fabio Fazio to “Che tempo che fa” about his recent visit to a record shop in Rome. When asked if it is true that he danced it in the past, Bergoglio replied: “A porteno who does not dance the tango is not a porteno”, referring to his life in Buenos Aires. However, he specified that he went to the record store a few weeks ago to bless the club run by friends.
“You need closeness with your children: when young couples go to confession or talk to them, I always ask: ‘Do you play with your children?’ Sometimes I hear painful responses: “Father, when I go out they sleep and when I come back as well.” This is the cruel society that distances parents from children. Even when children make some slips, even when they grow up, you have to be close to them, you have to talk to your children . Parents who are not close do not work well, they must be almost accomplices of the children, that complicity that allows fathers and children to grow together “.
“One question I’ve never been able to answer is ‘why do children suffer?’ I have no answers to this. There is no answer. He is strong in love, hatred and destruction is in the hands of another. In God’s relationship with the Son we could see what is in God’s heart when these happen. what’s this”. So the Pope from Fabio Fazio on Rai three. “Jesus never had a dialogue with the devil: either he hunts him or he answers him with the Bible, this applies to all temptations. When asked why children suffer, I find only the answer to suffer with them. In this Dostoevsky is right”.
“Today the evil of the greatest Church is spiritual worldliness, it is a worldly church. This spiritual worldliness makes clericalism grow, an ugly thing, a perversion of the Church, which leads to ideologically rigid positions. Thus ideology takes the place of the Gospel”. We must return to the center “The Word became Flesh: there is the future of the Church”, said the Pontiff.
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