For another year, St. Peter's Basilica was decorated to honor the patron saint of the Americas. <\/p>\n
Pope Francis presided over the Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe<\/strong>. <\/p>\n In his homily, the pope insisted that no one is small or should feel ashamed<\/strong> in God's eye. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Pope Francis also explained that Our Lady of Guadalupe wanted to appear to St. Juan Diego with the same characteristics of his people. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Thus, the pope asserted the special character of the Latin American people<\/strong> and asked for defense against any attempt at standardization. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> As is customary on this day, the Mass ended with singing of \u201cLa Guadalupana.\u201d <\/strong>For the fourth consecutive year, Pope Francis presided over this ceremony in honor of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, a tradition begun by Benedict XVI in 2011. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 12, 2017. The pope asked for the defense of Latin American people against any \u201ccultural colonization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7PwGVNEOwl4","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmessaguadalupeeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmessaguadalupeint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49939"}],"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=49939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cThe dream of God isn't to be barrenness, nor to stigmatize or fill his children with shame, but rather, to sprout a song of blessing in them and from them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe Virgin Mary with brown skin and a mixed face, supported by an angel with quetzal, pelican and macaw wings; the mother capable of taking on the features of Her children to make them feel included in Her blessing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cOur fertility demands the defense of our people from an ideological colonization that does away with the richest of them \u2013 whether indigenous, African American, mixed, rural or suburban.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n