{"id":50304,"date":"2017-09-19T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/09\/19\/pope-in-santa-marta-we-often-see-tragedies-in-the-paper-and-simply-turn-the-page\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:57:00","slug":"pope-in-santa-marta-we-often-see-tragedies-in-the-paper-and-simply-turn-the-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/09\/19\/pope-in-santa-marta-we-often-see-tragedies-in-the-paper-and-simply-turn-the-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope in Santa Marta: We often see tragedies in the paper... and simply turn the page"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pope Francis reflected on the Gospel passage recounting the miraculous healing of the son of the widow of Naim<\/strong>, once again drawing attention to indifference in society.<\/p>\n

POPE FRANCIS
\n<\/strong>\u201cSo often we see the news on TV, or on the cover of the paper, the tragedies\u2026 \u2018Look, in that country the children don\u2019t have enough to eat; in that country the children are forced to be soldiers; in that country women are enslaved; in that country\u2026 Oh, what a calamity! Poor people\u2026\u2019 So we turn the page and go to read a novel or the soap operas that come after. This is not Christian.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The pope concluded by asking Christians to examine their ability to sympathize <\/strong>and suffer with others.<\/p>\n

EXTRACTS OF POPE'S HOMILY IN ENGLISH<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCompassion is a sentiment that gets involved, it is a sentiment of the heart, of the viscera, it involves the whole person. It\u2019s not the same as \u201cpain,\u201d or of [saying] \u201cHow sad, poor people!\u201d: No, it\u2019s not the same. Compassion gets involved. It is \u201csuffering with.\u201d This is compassion. The Lord is involved in the lives of a widow, of an orphan. \u201cBut say there\u201d [people might say]\u2026 You have a whole crowd here, why don\u2019t you talk to the crowd? Leave them\u2026 Life is like that\u2026 Those are tragedies that just happen\u2026\u201d No. For Him, that widow and that dead orphan were more important than the crowds He was speaking to and that were following Him. The Lord, with His compassion, was involved in this case. He had compassion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDrawing near is touching the reality. Touching. Not looking at it from a distance. He had compassion\u2014the first word. He drew near\u2014the second word. Then He performs the miracle. Jesus does not say, \u2018So long, I\u2019m continuing on my way.\u2019 No. He takes the child, and what does it say? \u2018He restored him to his mother.\u2019 To restore: the third word. Jesus performs miracles to restore, to return people to their proper place. And that is what He did with the redemption. He had compassion\u2014God had compassion\u2014He drew near to us in His Son, and He restored all of us to the dignity of children of God. He has re-created all of us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo often we see the news on TV, or the cover of the paper, the tragedies\u2026 \u2018But look, in that country the children don\u2019t have enough to eat; in that country the children are forced to be soldiers; in that country women are enslaved; in that country\u2026 Oh, what a calamity! Poor people\u2026\u2019 Many pages are written in the novel, in the TV shows that come after. And this is not Christian. And the question I ask now, looking at everyone, including myself, is, \u2018Am I able to have compassion? To pray? When I see these things, that they bring to me at home, through the media\u2026 am I moved in the depths of my being? Does my heart suffer with those people; or do I feel pain, do I say, \u201cPoor people,\u201d and the like?\u2019 And if you can\u2019t have compassion, ask for the grace: \u2018Lord, give me the grace of compassion.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He continued to call attention to and denounce the culture of indifference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5c6buFpHEvg","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta1909eng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta1909int.mov","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50304"}],"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=50304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}