2023-05-25 18:15:00
May 25, 2023 / 11:15 a.m.
Pope Francis reiterated his desire to travel to Argentina in 2024, his native country to which he still he has not been able to return since he was named pontiff in 2013.
He did so during a meeting with the young people of Scholas Ocurrentes for the tenth anniversary of this foundation, which just a year ago the Holy Father transformed into a “private association of the faithful.”
“Do you have plans to visit Argentina soon?”, they asked him during the event held in the auditorium Augustinian in the Vatican: “The idea is to go next year” responded Pope Francis.
He #Pope francesco receive the t-shirt #Maradona in the meeting with the young people of #Schools. It was given to him by the president of the Napoli team that has won the championship in Italy. pic.twitter.com/pmH1wPNqNt
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It should be remembered that last April, the Holy Father already expressed this desire during an interview with the Argentine newspaper The nation.
“I always wanted to return to the country,” said Pope Francis on that occasion, who asked that “please do not associate me with Argentine politics.”
The Pope is received with a Fado in the Augustinianum. pic.twitter.com/libC8avjEd
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In this meeting on May 25, in which the Holy Father has answered the different questions asked by young people from countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Spain. Argentina, or the United States, also warned about the danger of pornography, which he defined as “the crudest commercialization of love.” “A person who loves does not like to be interpreted that way,” he said.
He also spoke about the importance of “authenticity” for young people, that which allows “a person to express himself as he is”. He assured that ‘all boys have a duty to be authentic and that their authenticity be respected’.
The Holy Father also spoke of the crises and pointed out that they must be identified and helped to emerge from them. You get out of a crisis with two conditions, he pointed out: “You can’t get out alone, you get out accompanied and you don’t get out the same, or you get out better or worse.”
Responding to a question from an elderly woman from Granada (Spain), Pope Francis He talked about the close relationship he had with his grandparentsAs on other occasions, he stressed that “a society is spoiled when the connection with its roots is broken. If we do not receive the sap, we dry up.”
In this way, he affirmed that “the elderly do not have the right to die alone” and warned that “a society that neglects that does not survive, it becomes ideologised.”
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