Pope Francis asked this Sunday to learn from history and not forget that the danger of a nuclear war already threatened the world in the period in which the Second Vatican Council began 60 years ago.
In his message during the Angelus prayer in Saint Peter’s Square in Rome, Francis asked “why not learn from history”, alluding to the Cuban missile crisis, which involves the United States and the Soviet Union, occurred when the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) began.
“Also at that time there were conflicts and great tensions, but the peaceful path was chosen,” the pontiff stressed.
Pope Francis also warned about the exclusion of migrants, calling it “disgusting, criminal and sinful,” during the canonization ceremony in St. Peter’s Square for Giovanni Battista Scalabrini (1839-1905), who founded two congregations dealing with of the migrants, and of Artemides Zatti, an Italian emigrant in Argentina.
“Scalabrini looked further, looked towards the future, towards a world and a Church without barriers, without foreigners”, he recalled, commenting on the “exclusion of migrants”, which he considered “scandalous”.
“The exclusion of migrants is criminal, it makes them die in front of us, and that is why we call the Mediterranean the largest cemetery in the world” and, he continued, “it is disgusting, sinful”.
For Francisco, “it is criminal” not to open the doors to those who need it, because, he said, “we exclude them and send them to prison camps, where they are exploited and sold as slaves.”
“There is a migration in Europe today that makes us suffer and leads us to open our hearts, which is that of the Ukrainians fleeing the war,” he said, appealing to “not forget the martyred Ukraine.”
Source: TSF
