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Papa Francesco

Standing, straight, almost at attention in front of his people. The simple words. The request for prayer and the recitation with the people of the simple Christian prayers that everyone knows. Then, bowing, and imploring “please”, he asks the blessing of all. Always, on the face marked by age, an serene expression, like that a young man looking forward with hope, in peace with everybody and ready to do his duty.

The Bishop of Rome, the Church which presides in charity all the Churches, made me feel the joy of being in communion with a Church that has extraordinary reserves of innovation and youth. Francis is a young person, because faith nourishes hope and charity, and keeps forever young. His first words today, in his trips outside the Vatican, were of mercy, forgiveness and hope. I am sure that will give everyone a new impetus, will open up new avenues and new horizons. With Francis, indeed, the young faith of the South of the world enters the Church of Rome.

They want to find in him, at all costs, many failures: guilty silence, dirty alliances. Certainly he is not perfect, and has faults, though probably not as severe as those which they want to attibute to him. The greatness of a person is not in being perfect, because perfect is only the Father who is in heaven, the greatness is rather in the willingness to always be reborn in the spirit, as Jesus explained to Nicodemus.

Francis is the kind of pope I can imagine coming to Nairobi and going to talk to the women in line for the water from the fountain of Kivuli, or walking the streets of Kibera listening with participation and true concern to the stories of the street children.

One Comment

  1. michele la rosa says:

    Per me è un Papa molto evangelico! E’ come se Dio ce lo avesse annunciato all’ISSR di Parma. Sento che Dio lo ha mandato in un momento critico, per cambiare rotta a dei vertici non più in grado di capire l’urgenza di attuare il Concilio Vaticano II. Benvenuti Tempi Nuovi! FRANCESCO ripara questa casa che è tutta in rovina!

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