Pope Francis reflected on what it means to be a father today in an interview with the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. <\/p>\n
1.- FOR FUTURE FATHERS<\/strong><\/p>\n In the interview, he asks today's young people, whom he calls \u201cthe fathers of tomorrow,\u201d<\/em> to consider \u201cwhat parents they have had and what parents they want to be.\u201d<\/em> He tells them: <\/p>\n \u201cThey should not let the role of fatherhood be a fruit of chance...but rather they should decide with awareness how to love someone, how to take on the responsibility of someone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n 2.- TEACHING RESPONSIBILITY<\/strong><\/p>\n Pope Francis says that being a good parent consists of \u201cplacing children in the condition to take on their responsibilities, to exercise their freedom, to make choices.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Yet the Pope himself recognizes it is no easy task.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS 3.- OVERCOMING FAILURE<\/strong><\/p>\n He also recalls that \u201cA true father does not tell you that everything will always go well, but rather that even if you may find yourself in a situation in which things are not going well, you will be able to face and live with dignity even in those moments, those failures.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n 4.- KNOWING WHEN TO STEP BACK<\/strong><\/p>\n The Pope says a good father knows when to take a step back as his children grow...<\/p>\n \u201c...so that his child can emerge with his beauty, with his uniqueness, with his choices, with his vocation.... in every good relationship, we have to give up wishing to impose from on high, an image, an expectation, indeed a visibility, completely filling the scene with excessive activity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Pope Francis says these characteristics should also be adopted by the Church, which must be more fatherly and help people make better decisions. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n JRB<\/p>\n TR: JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 13, 2022. The Pope spoke to the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, about lessons from St. Joseph on parenting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zoFIfxThClE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bintervistaalpapaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bintervistaalpapaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>'Love is taking care of others. Love is not the sound of violins and romance, no. Love is work.'<\/em><\/p>\n