2024-01-15 02:28:00
Pope Francis spoke about the possibility or not of his resignation from the pontificate / Photo: AFP.
Pope Francis stated this Sunday that “for the moment” he does not plan to resign and asserted that resignation “is an open possibility” for all pontiffs.
“Renunciation is neither a thought, nor a concern nor a desire,” said the Argentine pontiff, 87, in an interview on Italian television.
According to the pontiff, the resignation “It is a possibility open to all Popes” as his predecessor Benedict XVI did in 2013.
“But at the moment it is not at the center of my thoughts, my feelings, my concerns. As long as I feel capable of serving, I will move forward”Jorge Bergoglio emphasized in statements to the program Che Tempo che Fa.
In the interview, the Pope also referred to the open conflicts in the world and maintained that “There is some apparent self-destruction, it is difficult to make peace. I don’t know why.”
“There is something self-destructive inside” of humanity, the Pope said, although he stressed that there is hope.
“Hope is the force that carries us forward, it never disappoints. We are the ones who create so many disappointments. Every day I communicate with the parish of Gaza, and they tell me the things that happen”indicated about the war conflict between Israel and the Hamas group that began in a new phase on October 7.
“Terrible war: how many Arabs died there and how many Israelis. Two peoples called to be brothers destroying each other. This is war”the Pope later developed.
In general terms, “The war began at the beginning of the biblical story, with Cain and Abel, the enmity, the crime, the war,” he proposed about the conflict between brothers that the scriptures recount.
“Then there have always been wars in history. It is a selfish option. War has the gesture of taking for one, while peace has the gesture of shaking hands. Behind wars is the arms trade and they are always to destroy “You have to look at the images of the Gaza Strip, Crimea or Ukraine. Destroy”he emphasized.
When referring to another open conflict, the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in February 2022, he recalled that “Two Wednesdays ago a delegation of children from Ukraine came, with their parents.”
“They saw something of the war, and I tell you that none of them smiled. I gave them chocolates and they didn’t smile, they had forgotten to smile and that is criminal, it is what war does”he regretted and highlighted that “children are the most exploited and discarded.”
“We take away the future of children and then when they reach the age of 22 and go to prison we say what they do… but it was we who discarded them as a society”analyzed before maintaining that “You don’t play with children, they are the future.”
At the ecclesiastical level, the Pope defended his call for a Church “for all.”
“The Church has this cordial dimension, of the heart: everyone at home, everyone inside. The problem is when we make the selection, he doesn’t do it, he says everyone inside”development.
When asked about the recent decision of a Vatican body to endorse blessings for irregular couples, including those of the same sex, the Pope defended the declaration and stated in response to criticism of the document that “when the decisions are not accepted, the majority , it’s because they don’t know each other.”
“The Lord blesses all those who are capable of being baptized, that is, every person. We must take them by the hand, not condemn them from the beginning. This is a very important job for the Church”he explained in that direction.
“In 54 years as a priest, I only once denied forgiveness, due to the hypocrisy of the person, I have always forgiven everything”Bergoglio later recalled.
Furthermore, in terms of the Curia and his pontificate, he stated that “The most urgent reform is that of the hearts for all Christians.”
“The structures are updated, but the heart must be reformed every day. Things that were good in the last century are no longer good. They are not absolute things, but relative to the historical moment”he stated.
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