During his homily at Casa Santa Marta, the pope described the drama of being very informed while still keeping one's heart closed to other people's pain.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Pope Francis said this attitude is an example of the globalization of indifference in the face of the challenges of humanity.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope says one risks forgetting one's own name and thinking one is defined by what one has or lacks.<\/p>\n SUMMARY OF POPE'S HOMILY<\/p>\n Source: Vatican<\/p>\n \u201cThe Gospel says that Lazarus \u2018was taken to heaven with Abraham, to the bosom of Abraham.\u2019 Regarding the rich man, it says he \u2018was buried.\u2019 Period.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Between us there is a great abyss. We can\u2019t communicate. We can\u2019t go from one side to the other.\u2019 It was the same abyss that had existed between the rich man and Lazarus while they were alive.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe all know because we've heard it on the television or we've read it in the newspapers: How many children suffer hunger today in the world, how many children don't have the necessary medicines, how many children can\u2019t go to school. We say, \u2018poor things\u2019 and continue on. We know these things exist, but it doesn\u2019t penetrate our heart.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIndifference brings us to the point of losing our name. We are this or that. We are adjectives.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe ask the Lord today for the grace of not falling into indifference. The grace that all the information we have about human suffering might penetrate our hearts and move us to do something for others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 12, 2020. He warned against the globalization of indifference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hB7leT82YJs","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta1203eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta1203int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46899"}],"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=46899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cWe all know, because we've heard it on the television or we've read it in the newspapers: how many children suffer hunger today in the world, how many children don't have the necessary medication, how many children can't go to school.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe say, 'I feel sorry for them,' and continue on. This information doesn't penetrate our hearts, and many of us, many groups of men and women, live with this disconnect between what they think, what they know and what they feel. The heart is disconnected from the mind. They are indifferent.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n