In the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis commented on what the United Nations called 'the worst loss of life this year in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n
A boat containing roughly 300 migrants had it's engine fail before it capsized Thursday just off the coast of Libya. An estimated 150 are assumed dead.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> This question was also tied in to his reflection on the Our Father. The pope explained this prayer allows one to call on God like a curious child asking for answers from his or her father.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope explained that these questions help form the intimate Father-son relationship that Christ desires with each of his children. In the same way, it spurred the disciples to ask Jesus how to pray, which resulted in the Our Father. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 29, 2019. He called on the international community to \u201cact promptly and decisively, to avoid the repetition of similar tragedies and guarantee the safety and dignity of everyone\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/C377auz_DWc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus2807eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus2807int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47768"}],"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=47768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI renew a heartfelt appeal so the international community acts promptly and decisively, to avoid the repetition of similar tragedies and guarantee the safety and dignity of everyone. I invite you to pray with me for the victims and their families, and ask the heartfelt question: 'Father, why?'<\/em><\/p>\n
\nIn the Our Father, if we stop at the first word, we do the same as when we were children- we attract the Father's gaze on us. By saying, 'Father, Father', and by asking, 'Why?' He will look at us.<\/em><\/p>\n