“Next Saturday, January 27th, we celebrate the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust. The memory and condemnation of this terrible extermination of millions of Jews and people of other faiths in the first half of the last century helps everyone.” Remember that the logic of hatred and violence can never be justified because they deny our very humanity“. This is what the Pope said at the end of the general audience. Bergoglio then called again for peace because “war itself is, as he said, a denial of humanity.” Let us not tire of praying for peace, for an end of conflicts, for an end to weapons and for helping exhausted population groups. I am thinking about it middle EastAt the Palestine, IsraelI think of the disturbing news from the troubled area Ukraine, particularly for the bombings that hit places frequented by civilians, causing death, destruction and suffering. I pray for the victims and their families and implore everyone, especially those with political responsibility, to protect human lives by putting an end to the wars.” “Let us not forget: War is always a defeat, Always. Only the manufacturers of the weapons ‘win’.”
At the general audience, in which he continued the catechesis on vices and virtues and focused today's reflection on avarice, the Pope recalled that “no matter how much a person accumulates goods in this world, we are absolutely certain of one thing: that “He will do it in the coffin.”
“Here the senselessness of this vice is revealed. The bond of ownership that we establish with things is only apparent because we are not the masters of the world: this land that we love is in reality not ours, and we move in it as strangers and pilgrims,” emphasized the Pope. And “these simple considerations make us understand the madness.”greed, but also the most hidden reason. It is an attempt to drive out the fear of death“Look for securities that in reality crumble as soon as we seize them,” Pope Francis concluded. The behavior of thieves is “censorable” but at the same time can be “a healthy warning” against the vice of greed, he added.
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