The Pope has asked the priests of St. Peter’s Basilica to bless all visitors who wish to do so, including muslims.
Thus, Francis has expressly requested that non-Christians who have visited St. Peter’s Basilica and who wish to receive a blessing be able to receive it, including “Muslims.” and also people of other religions.
“People come, they feel something, even non-Christians come to ask for a blessing,” Francisco explained. “Everyone, really everyone, should feel welcome in this great house,” added the Pontiff in the speech he addressed to the staff working at the service of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.
Likewise, he has urged confessors to “forgive everything” to the Catholic faithful. “Please, let there always be confessors at hand,” the Pope asked. «Always give blessing to everyone, and to those who want to confess, forgive everyone, everyone!«he insisted. «Everyone, really everyone, should feel welcomed in this great house: those who have faith and those who seek faith; those who come to contemplate the many artistic beauties of Rome and those who want to decipher its cultural codes,” he added.
Good use of technology
On the other hand, the Pope has also called for good use of technology, “remembering that its products are good not only when they work well, but above all when they help us grow,” in a speech to the delegation of technicians and partners of the San Pedro Factory.
In this meeting, he assured that this principle is all the more “valid for St. Peter’s Basilica” and for the various interventions it requires in order to make it for all visitors “a living place of faith and history, a hospitable abode.” , a temple of encounter with God and with the brothers and sisters who come to Rome from all over the world«.
Francisco has also recommended that technicians use “the gaze of faith” and use avant-garde tools “with a missionary, non-touristy style, without seeking the attraction of special effects, but investing in new means to tell the faith of the Church and the culture it has shaped.
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