2023-06-04 15:34:00
June 4, 2023 / 8:34 a.m.
In an interview on the Italian program “A sua Immagine” (In His Image), Pope Francis called for peace and insisted that “everything can be lost with war.”
By attending this interview, Pope Francis has become the first Pontiff to visit a television studio.
The recording took place on May 27 on the Italian television RAI of Saxa Rubra and was broadcast on the morning of this Sunday, June 4.
During the interview, Pope Francis spoke about wars and stated that “it is a story as old as humanity: peace always wins, perhaps little, but it does.”
On the contrary, he stressed that “everything is lost with war, and the supposed gains are losses.”
In this sense, he recalled the words of Pius XII, who before the start of World War II defended that “nothing is lost with peace. All can be lost with war”.
Referring to countries suffering from war, especially Ukraine, the Holy Father lamented that “there is pleasure in torture.”
He explained that this “we are seeing in the war, in war movies, pleasure… And so many soldiers who work there torturing Ukrainian soldiers. I have seen the movies. And this sometimes happens with boys.
Likewise, Pope Francis was asked about other issues such as the Jubilee 2025, what he referred to as an occasion “to bring everyone closer to each other, to God, to dissolve the problems, to forgive”.
He also highlighted the important role of the media and assured that they “should help people meet, understand each other, make friends and drive away the devils that ruin people’s lives.”
In addition, he spoke about the meaning of pain when meeting a mother who had lost her son and recalled the importance of “tenderness” and “accompanying the pain.”
“I was also accompanied at the time of pain. I learned one thing when I had that disease at the age of 21, almost to death: in the face of pain, only gestures, words are useful… There are no words for pain, only gestures, and silence, “he said.
Almudena Martínez-Bordiú is a Spanish journalist, correspondent for ACI Prensa in Rome and the Vatican, with four years of experience in religious information.
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