“With the migrants, what is done is criminal; to reach the sea they suffer so much, there are videos in which you can see what those who want to flee suffer in the concentration camps of human traffickers,” he said.
“Migrants suffer and then risk to cross the Mediterranean and then sometimes they are rejected, and there are these boats that turn looking for a port, who are told that they cannot and that they die on the sea; this is happening today,” Francis lamented in dialogue with the program “Che tempo che fa”.
For the Pope, who made the problem of migrants one of the axes of his pontificate, “the European Union has to agree and reach a balance but in communion.”
“Now there is an injustice: many arrive in Spain and Italy, the two closest countries, and they are not received elsewhere,” he criticized.
“There are countries that, with the demographic decline they are experiencing, need people and an integrated migrant helps that country: we must think intelligently about immigration policy, that it be a continental policy, because it is our responsibility,” he called.
Thus, “that the Mediterranean is the largest cemetery in Europe should make us think,” he said.
Likewise, the Pope once again denounced the international arms trade: “With a year without making weapons, everyone could be fed and educated for free,” he said.
In the interview, the pontiff also recalled his recent visit to a record store in the center of Rome and, in a friendly tone, stated that he likes tango and stated that “a porteño who does not dance tango is not a porteño.”
On a personal level, he also referred to his “few but true” friends: “I have friends like a common man. I like to be with them, tell my stories, listen to their things. I need my friends. The Popes of the past were saints , I need human relationships. Friendships give me strength. They are few, but true.”
In almost an hour in which he reviewed his classic definitions of the environment, peace and religion, the pontiff warned that “the greatest evil of the Church is spiritual worldliness.”
“Spiritual worldliness makes an ugly thing grow, clericalism, which is a perversion of the Church and generates rigidity. Under every type of rigidity there is always rot, and thus ideology takes the place of the Gospel,” he analyzed.
Source: Ambito
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