Franco Pisano

Helping the poor, even with "little things", enlarges the heart and leads to magnanimity. Faced with the statistics of poverty in the world, with the children who are dying of hunger, the good attitude is to ask oneself: "But how can I solve this?". It arises from the concern to do good.

"Jesus asks us to let Him become our king". "But we must not forget that the kingdom of Jesus is not of this world. He will be able to give a new meaning to our life, sometimes also tested by our mistakes and our sins, only on condition that we do not follow the logic of the world and its 'kings' ". Yesterday the Holodomor anniversary, "terrible famine caused by the Soviet regime that caused millions of victims".

Francis appoints members of the Organizing Committee, which include Card. Gracias. The meeting will include people who have been abused by the clergy.

Francis speaks in a video-message released for the 34th World Youth Day in Panama next January centred on ‘I am the servant of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word’.

The last part of the Ten Commandments is aimed at bringing “man to his truth, that is, to his poverty, which becomes authentic openness, personal openness to the mercy of God, Who transforms and renews us.” Likewise, “Let us keep in mind that all the commandments have the task of indicating the boundary of life, the limit beyond which man destroys himself and his neighbour, breaking down his relationship with God.”

In a message to a pilgrimage promoted by the Patriarchate of Venice and the "Aid to the Church in Need" Foundation, Francis reiterates that religious freedom constitutes "a fundamental human right that must be recognized because it reflects man’s highest dignity".

Francis receives an Albanian delegation to the Vatican for 550 years after the death of Giorgio Castriota Skanderberg, underlining the coexistence between people of different faith "favors the development of authentic spiritual paths and becomes a valid example of how to build a lasting peace, based on respect for dignity and the human person ".

"The dramatic situation of Christians who are persecuted and killed in ever-increasing numbers is in front of the whole world - which too often turns its gaze away. In addition to their blood martyrdom, there is also their 'white martyrdom' which occurs in democratic countries when freedom of religion is limited. And this is the daily white martyrdom of the Church in those places ".

"The Bride of Christ has a silent temperament, generates fruits" without noise ", without" playing the trumpet like the Pharisees ". "The Church also grows with the blood of the martyrs, men and women who give their lives. Today there are many. Curious: they do not make the news. The world hides that. The spirit of the world does not tolerate martyrdom, it hides it".

The eighth commandment "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” not just about lies, but "it means to live as children of God". Let us ask ourselves: what truth do the works, words, choices of Christians attest to?".

At the historic meeting in Casablanca, the Polish Pope spoke of the common faith in the one God and also of human rights, which "have their foundation in God": first of all, freedom of conscience and religion, "protected from external constraints" because freedom characterizes "the dignity of man". A religious freedom, he specified, that needs "reciprocity". And he also emphasized the respect due to every human person, "man or woman"

A bishop should not be arrogant or conceited, not angry and not addicted to wine, one of the most common vices in the time of Paul, not a businessman or attached to money. "The Church has never been born perfectly in order, with everything all right, without problems, without confusion, never. It has always arisen this way ".