Pope Francis’ statements, who died on Monday (21), condemning wars, injustices and asking for peace, were remarkable during their period as a Pontiff.
Considered by many to be progressive, Francis talked about sensitive themes for the Catholic Church as the homosexual union, criticized violence and world leaders, albeit indirectly.
“God is Brazilian”
In 2013, a few months after taking over the papacy, Francisco made his first international trip to Brazil for the World Youth Day.
During an interview with Brazilian journalists, the Pope answered questions about people mourning the nationality of the new pontiff.
“Do you already have a Brazilian god, wanted a Brazilian Pope too?”
joked.
Immigration
“We should not surprise them with their numbers, but to see them as people, seeing their faces and listening to their stories,” he told the US Congress during a visit in September 2015.
“It is hypocrisy to say Christian and expel a refugee or someone who seeks help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, expelling someone who needs my help,”
He expressed him at a meeting of German faithful at the Vatican in October 2016.
LGBTQ Rights
“Homosexual people have the right to have a family. They are children of God and are entitled to a family. No one should be expelled or feel miserable for it,”
He said in a documentary released in October 2020, asking that same -sex couples are protected by civil union laws.
In a meeting with closed doors with Italian bishops in May 2024, Pope Francis caused a commotion by saying that priestly colleges were full of “frocociaggine”, an Italian term that can be translated approximately as a “fag”. Later, he apologized.
WARS FOR THE WORLD
“Hostility, extremism and violence are not born of a religious heart: they are betrayal to religion,” he said during a visit to UR, Iraq in March 2021.
“In Ukraine, rivers of blood and tears are flowing. This is not just a military operation, but a war that sows death, destruction and misery,”
He exclaimed on March 6, 2022, referring to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022.
Economy and Capitalism
“Unbridled (economic) liberalism only makes strong the stronger and the weak weaker, and excludes the most excluded”
expressed to the newspaper La Repubblica in October 2013.
“It is increasingly intolerable for financial markets to be shaping people’s fate rather than meeting their needs, or that few get immense richness with financial speculation, while many are deeply overloaded by the consequences,” he said at another time during a Vatican ethical investment seminar in June 2014.
Abortion and contraception
“It’s legitimate, is it right, to eliminate a human life to solve a problem? Is it a human life – is that science. The moral question is whether it is correct to take a human life to solve a problem. In fact, it is correct to hire a rent killer to solve a problem?” Pontiff raised the questioning to Reuters in July 2022.
“Some think, sorry if I use the word, that to be good Catholics, we have to be like rabbits, but no,”
Clergy
“I am compelled to personally assume all the evil that some priests-quite reduced, (though) obviously not compared to the total number of priests-commit to personally asking for forgiveness for the damage they have caused by sexually abused children,” he said in makeshift comments to the International Catholic Bureau on April 11, 2014.
“We have to fight each case… as a priest, I have to help people grow and save them. If I abuse, I kill them. That’s terrible. Zero tolerance,”
He spoke to Reuters in July 2022.
*With information from Reuters
This content was originally published in “God is Brazilian”: remember Pope Francis’ striking phrases on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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