Rome-. “This war worries me, it makes me suffer,” the confrontation of “brothers against brothers,” Pope Francis said during an audience with delegates from the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary, the Holy See said in a note today.
In a statement published this Sunday on the official website of the Vatican Press Office, it is noted that the Pope, at that meeting with the delegation from the aforementioned Educational and Religious Center of Conservative Judaism, considered that “if arms are not released during a year world hunger would end.”
Francis also referred to the fact that “when you say those things of justice that the prophets keep repeating: the orphan, the widow, the stranger, the poor, is it not true? They tell you that you are a communist”.
“You tell me,” he added, “this Pope is not talking about God, but about social things,” expressing that both things “go together: righteousness, righteousness of the heart, throughout the Bible, is always with God and with the neighbor. They go together. In other words, worship and serve, worship and help”.
The highest representative of the Catholic Church stressed to the members of this Argentina-based institution, which is dedicated to the training of rabbis, that “if you only help and do not worship, you are a good atheist, nothing more. He who worships and does not help is a cynic, a liar.