The pandemic has halted papal travel, but July marks the seventh anniversary of the first international papal trip. It was to Brazil, for WYD.<\/p>\n
Expectations were high from the first moment and nobody forgot details like this: when the pope showed up in a simple gray Fiat Idea, without the usual surrounding armor for protection.<\/p>\n
In Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis' messages were full of energy and his gestures, full of affection.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS <\/strong> POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope met with indigenous from the Amazon, on whom years later he would organize a Synod. He also visited the slums, a perfect place to denounce the throwaway culture.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> One could see the pope as close to the people and dynamic, but also as a deep and pious man, who prayed with recollection and fervor in Aparecida.<\/p>\n It was a journey that established new dynamics and met the expectations Benedict XVI had for the trip. He had resigned from the papacy a few months earlier, so a person with more energy could take over the sweet, but heavy burden of the Church.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Javier Romero <\/p>\n Translation: Melissa Butz<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 25, 2020. The trip established new dynamics and met the expectations Benedict XVI had for the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xx-Wk8zDFyc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapabrasile7annieng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapabrasile7anniint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46412"}],"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=46412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cBut I also want action in your dioceses. I want you to go beyond your comfort zone. I want the Church to go out to the street.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cPlease don't see life from afar. Live it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n \u201cNever yield to discouragement, do not lose trust, do not allow your hope to be extinguished.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n