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POPE: TENDERNESS, RECONCILIATION NEEDED IN TODAY’S WORLD
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TENDERNESS, RECONCILIATION NEEDED IN TODAY’S WORLD, POPE SAYS
BY JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Priests must follow the example of Jesus, the good shepherd, who laid down his life not just for his flock but also for the sheep that strayed away, Pope Francis said.
Addressing students and faculty from the Pontifical Mexican College March 29, the pope said the problems of today’s world should awaken “in every priest an authentic compassion, both for the sheep entrusted to him and for those who have gone astray.”
Those problems, he said, “demand of us priests that we conform ourselves to the Lord and the gaze of love with which he contemplates us. By conforming our gaze to his, our gaze is transformed into a gaze of tenderness, reconciliation and fraternity.”
In his prepared remarks, the pope highlighted the challenges facing the Catholic Church in Mexico which, like in many countries across the globe, have been made even more difficult due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tenderness, he said, is needed to address “the problems that afflict society,” including violence, social and economic inequalities, corruption and a lack of hope.
Priests also must foster reconciliation, which is needed to confront differences as well as corruption that have weakened the “multicolored web of cultures that make up the social and religious fabric of the nation.”
Mexican priests must show particular care and concern for “those who have been discarded because of their indigenous roots or their particular popular religiosity,” the pope continued.
“We shepherds are called to help rebuild respectful and constructive rela-
POPE FRANCIS LEADS AN AUDIENCE WITH STUDENTS AND FACULTY FROM THE PONTIFICAL MEXICAN COLLEGE AT THE VATICAN MARCH 29, 2021. THE POPE SAID THE PROBLEMS FACING TODAY’S WORLD SHOULD AWAKEN “IN EVERY PRIEST AN AUTHENTIC COMPASSION, BOTH FOR THE SHEEP ENTRUSTED TO HIM AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE GONE ASTRAY.” PHOTO: VATICAN MEDIA / CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
tionships between persons, groups and cultures within society, proposing to all to ‘allow themselves to be reconciled by God’ and to commit to the restoration of justice,” he said.
Lastly, Pope Francis told the students and faculty that they must have “a shared and unifying vision that can impel us to create fraternity” by highlighting the “points of connection and interaction in the heart of cultures and in the ecclesial community.” Such a vision, he said, will encourage and guide the faithful “to be respectful of our common home and become builders of a new world, in collaboration with all men and women of goodwill.” “In order to see in this way, we need the light of faith and the wisdom of those who know how to ‘take off their sandals’ in order to contemplate the mystery of God and, from this perspective, to read the signs of the times,” the pope said. C
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Presenting the document during an online news conference March 30, Salesian Father Joshtrom Kureethadam, an official at the dicastery, said, “Climate crisis and other ecological hazards are becoming the primary drivers for displacement, and could re-shape patterns of migration in the coming decades.”
The crisis, he said, “is ultimately a moral problem. The poor and vulnerable communities whose carbon emissions are only a fraction of those of the rich world are already the early and disproportionate victims of the crisis.”
Asked to clarify the moral teaching behind the document, Cardinal Michael Czerny, undersecretary for migrants and refugees, said, “I don’t think the moral argument needs to be any more complex” than that all human beings were created by God, are brothers and sisters to each other and are living on the same planet. They have an obligation to each other and to the earth.
“We really seem to be at the point of deciding, actively or passively, whether we will take care of the one home we have or we destroy it,” the cardinal said.
Maria Madalena Issau, a 32-year-old widowed mother of five, who also cares for her two orphaned nephews, joined the conference from Mozambique, where she lives in a displaced persons’ camp outside of Mutua. She and the children have lived in the camp since March 2019 when Cyclone Idai struck Beira where she was living on the beach, buying and reselling fish to support her family.
A nongovernmental organization is starting to build one-bedroom homes to replace the tents at the resettlement center, she said, but there is “no work and no businesses, no projects to educate the youth or to occupy the people, and for odd jobs people must travel many kilometers.”
Archbishop Claudio Dalla Zuanna of Beira told reporters, “Climate change is not a hypothetical threat, but a reality that requires immediate action, including the creation of the conditions necessary to welcome those displaced by the increasing number of catastrophes.”
Emergency responses, “sometimes motivated by emotions that disappear rapidly,” are not enough, the archbishop said. Nor is it right to simply resettle people without thinking about how to provide essential services.
Where communities are particularly at risk of severe storms, flooding or desertification, he said, the obligatory contingency planning called for by the new document obviously applies to governments, but “also to the church in its vocation to be a welcoming home, the family of God.” C
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