Correspondent in the Vatican
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“It’s time to say”Enough” to the indiscriminate arms trafficking» said the Pope Francisco to applause this Wednesday morning before concluding his general audience, dismayed before a new shooting in a US educational center
“Let’s all commit ourselves so that tragedies like this don’t happen again,” he asked in reference to the killing of at least 19 children and 3 adults in Uvalde, in southwestern Texas.
The Pope assures that he is “heartbroken by the massacre at the Texas Elementary School” and added with a worried face that he is praying “for the children and adults killed and for their families.”
use a cane
Francis was seriousbut it looked good.
This Wednesday the Pope has used a walking stick to the armchair from where he has followed the meeting with the pilgrims. It was the first public appearance of the Pope with a cane, although he had already shown it in a photo taken during private meetings at his residence.
Until now, he is holding work meetings normally in the Apostolic Palace wearing a Wheelchair. The Pope is following every day dThe hours of physiotherapy sessionsand the doctors have asked him to rest to cure the acute knee pain caused by a Fsevere knee pain and has forced him to cancel several events. The cause is the wear of the cartilage in the knee.
During a closed-door meeting this Monday with Italian bishops, he told them that “does not intend to operate of the knee”.
This Wednesday, as usual, has traveled the st peter’s square sitting on the popemobile, and has invited a group of five boys and girls to get in the car with him. The Pope was amused that one of the little girls was wearing a «selfie stick» and has recorded and taken photos throughout the tour.
Tiredness society. “Although science advances, war continues to wreak havoc”
On the other hand, the Pope had a profound catechesis on the danger of separating intelligence from moralityleading to a «tired society».
“Modern culture has reduced truth to science exact and technology, creating a world without hope and without love», he lamented. That absence of “sensitivity or morality brings with it the fhigh passion for justice. This cynical and irresponsible reason paralyzes the soul with the temptation of the omnipotence of knowledge».
As a consequence, “we have become a society of fatigue, because progress and well-being lacking in justice have robbed us of the energy to do good. That is why, although science advances, war continues to wreak havoc », he lamented.
The Pope has also mentioned the war during his greeting to the polish pilgrimsyes “Yesterday we celebrated the memory of the Blessed Virgin Mary Help of Christians. In our prayers we entrust to you in a special way the Ukraine’s wish for peace and the whole world. May the Mother of God teach us to be in solidarity with those tested by the tragedy of war and obtain the reconciliation of nations », she asked.
As an anecdote, he has moved away from the text he had prepared, to congratulate Argentina on the day of his National holiday. “I have seen that there is a good group of Argentines and on this day of the national holiday of our country I send a cordial greeting to you and to all the Argentine people,” he added.
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George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism