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How can you maintain the essence of the Christian message – so personal, so “face to face” – in a universal Church, where you give voice to an entity as complex as the Vatican?
I believe that today’s society, although it seems distant and secularised, is searching. It is a society characterised by the digital era in which everyone speaks, everyone says what they think, everyone comments. This is not the time for wars and cultural battles, it is not the time for confrontation; everyone is already confronting each other on television, on social networks, in politics. There’s a simplification of reality; everything seems black and white. Faced with this, the Christian attitude is not to take up arms and enter the battle, but to give a totally different testimony: of welcome, tenderness, closeness, forgiveness, and mercy, which is the face of Jesus Christ.
I think he’s a man who has great moral authority, recognised throughout the world. In these 10 years, he has given us a personal testimony of faith and closeness to those who suffer, and also of courage. Could you explain more about the path initiated by the Second Vatican Council that Francis is following?
There’s a homily of St John Chrysostom, for example, that says: do not worry about covering the body of Christ on the altar at Mass with gold and precious things, but rather, the flesh of Christ who is the poor who is outside the door of the Church and has nothing to cover himself with. This is not liberation theology but the most authentic message of the Gospel and of the Fathers of the Church.
And the importance of caring for the common home, integral ecology and the central task of fraternity, of building a world where we all perceive ourselves as brothers and sisters in order to live in peace. So it’s truly an international, multicultural workplace, where we all seek, as our sole objective, to present the Pope’s message well, with its context.
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