Franco Pisano

Francis met priests, consecrated persons and members of lay movements. He also dedicated an altar in the Cathedral. "A wearied hope will be healed and will enjoy that ‘particular tiredness of heart’ when it is unafraid to return to the place of its first love and to find, in the peripheries and challenges before us today, the same song, the same gaze that inspired the song and the gaze of those who have gone before us.”

Francis noted "the way of Jesus" continues in a society that consumes and is consumed, ignores and ignores itself in the pain of its fellow human beings” and “in the hidden and outraged pain of those who, instead of solidarity, find rejection, pain and misery in a society replete with abundance, and who are moreover marked and treated as bearers and guilty for every social evil."

Francis celebrated a penitential liturgy in a youth detention centre. He focused his reflection "telling tales and gossiping" in opposition to "conversion".

Francis greets the 250 thousand present at the welcoming ceremony, "encountering one another does not mean having to look alike, or think the same way or do the same things". "And this is a criterion for distinguishing people: bridge builders and wall builders. These builders of walls that sow fear try to divide and frighten people. And you want to be bridge builders ".

In his first meeting in Panama, Francis said that the presence of so many young people who came to celebrate World Youth Day will make Panama a place of hope and commitment to a more humane world. Politicians should lead a “life consonant with the dignity and authority that they possess and that has been entrusted to them”.

Francis himself made the announcement on the plane taking him to Panama for the 34th World Youth Day. Visiting Iraq is too dangerous at present.

They are made of synthetic material. They will be worn today, on the anniversary of the arrival of the Swiss mercenaries, in 1506. Today the first video clip in the series "1506 - the Swiss Guard story" is published on "honor and service".

It is "meekness, humility, patience in suffering, love for justice, ability to endure persecutions, not to judge others ...". The "accusatory style", the "mundane style" and the "egoistic style" are non-Christian.

During the celebration marking the start of the 52nd Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Francis said “It is a grave sin to belittle or despise the gifts that the Lord has given our brothers and sisters, and to think that God somehow holds them in less esteem. When we entertain such thoughts, we allow the very grace we have received to become a source of pride, injustice and division. And how can we then enter the promised kingdom?

Conclusion of Bangkok meeting between Chairpersons of Doctrinal Commissions, or the Representatives, of the Asian Bishops’ Conferences with a delegation from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Two Chinese representatives also present.

The Pastoral Orientations on Human Trafficking present guidelines to fight this “atrocious scourge" and get to the roots of the problem, i.e. economic exploitation. This means stressing the legal and moral responsibility of “buyers” as well as convincing states and institutions to help and defend the victims.

May the Holy Spirit, therefore, enlighten us so that no one may have a perverse heart: a hard heart, which will lead you to faintheartedness; a stubborn heart that will lead you to rebellion, that will lead you to ideology; a heart that is seduced, a slave to seduction, that will make you Christians of compromise.