Sunday, September 29, 2024, 8:12 p.m.
On the flight back to Rome after his visit to Luxembourg and Belgium, Pope Francis implicitly criticized Israel for its attacks in Gaza and Lebanon. When asked by one of the journalists who accompanied him on the plane about the latest bombings in Beirut, in which the leader of Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, lost his life, the Pontiff responded that “the defense must always be proportional to the attack.” ». When one acts in a “disproportionate” manner, one goes “beyond morality.” “A country that does these things with its forces,” said Jorge Mario Bergoglio, emphasizing that he was referring to “any country,” and acts in a “superlative” manner, commits “immoral actions.” Even in war, the Pope stressed, we must have “morality to protect” and “rules to follow.” When that does not happen, there is “bad blood.”
In his response to reporters’ questions about the situation in the Middle East, Francis once again recalled that every day he calls the Gaza parish to learn first-hand how the members of the small Catholic community of the Franja and the displaced people who are sheltered in the church complex. “More than 600 people are there, parish and school, and they tell me the things that happen, even the cruelties that occur there,” commented the Pope, who also had words for the crisis of ecclesial pedophilia that has hit so much. the Church of Belgium. He has insisted on the “shame” of covering up abuses.
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