– To live and not vegetate – such advice, quoting the Italian Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, he gave young people the Pope Francis during a meeting in Turin. There was a group of young Poles.
– What’s sad is the view of young people who are going to retire at the age of 20 years – noted the Pope In a speech on the filled almost to the last place of Piazza Vittorio.
– Let me speak openly. I do not want to behave like a moralist, but I would say a word that you do not like the word unpopular, but also the Pope should risk it and tell the truth. And so I say to you: be innocent – he added.
He appealed to the youth to went “against the grain”. – Sometimes in advertising show us the diamonds and sell us a glass, we need to oppose this, we can not be naive – he said.
“They divided up Europe as cake”
The Pope repeated his recent words of Sarajevo, when he called hypocrites those who speak of peace and at the same time selling weapons. – They are leaders and entrepreneurs who say they are Christians and produce weapons – said Francis. He noted that some explain that they “have only” savings invested in weapons factory, because there ‘profits are higher. ”
According to the Pope, such hypocrisy prevailed in the past century. Recalling the crimes committed against the Armenians 100 years ago, Francis asked: “And where were the then great powers?”. – They looked the other way, were interested in war, and those who died, were second-class human beings – he added.
Then Francis reminded the Holocaust. The great powers “had pictures of the railway, which transported people to Auschwitz to kill Jews, Christians, homosexuals, all” – he said. – Why do not bombed those tracks? – He asked the pope. He referred also to the Stalinist era, when Christians suffered and were killed in the camps. – The big powers are divided on Europe as pie – he added.
Francis condemned the economic system, which occupies a central place money, and not man. – For the money, even a monkey would dance – he said.
Meeting in Turin
The meeting with the Pope in Turin participated a delegation from Krakow, where in the next year will be the World Youth Days. Earlier, Francis met the Salesians who are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the founder of the congregation of St. John Bosco. He told them, among other things, that the Church “must convert each day, starting from the Pope”.
He pointed out that the nineteenth century the vicinity of Turin were “anticlerical” and “demonic”. – And yet, how many saints here comes – he added.
He added that Salesian founded in 1908 his favorite soccer club San Lorenzo Almagro from Buenos Aires. – For me it is the best team in Argentina, many times was the champion – he stressed.
During a visit to Turin, the Pope visited that was not in the program, the Church of Saint Teresa, where in 1907 married his grandparents and where he was baptized a year later his father Mario. With its numerous relatives, living in Piedmont, the Pope will meet in Turin on Monday, the second day of a visit to the city.
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