"Everything will be different" after the global pandemic of the new coronavirus, from which humanity will emerge "better or worse", warned Pope Francis, in a message Saturday evening, calling for a "fairer and more equitable society". “When we get out of this pandemic, we will not be able to continue doing what we were doing, and as we were doing. No, everything will be different, ”said the Sovereign Pontiff, in a video message in Spanish on the occasion of the feast of Pentecost.
"How do you want to get out of it?" "
“From the great trials of humanity, among which this pandemic, we will emerge better or worse. It's not the same thing. I ask you: how do you get out of it? Better or worse? ", He launched.
“We need the Holy Spirit to give us new eyes, to open our minds and our hearts to face the present and the future with the lesson learned: we are one humanity. Nobody runs away alone. No one, ”assured Pope Francis.
"The world suffers (...) especially among the poorest"
“We know it, but this pandemic that we are experiencing has made us experience it in a much more dramatic way. We have before us the duty to build a new reality ", while" today, the world suffers, the world is hurt, (…) especially among the poorest who are rejected ".
"All these sufferings will have been for nothing if we do not build together a more just, more equitable, more Christian society, not in words, but in fact", he added, calling once again on "Put an end to the pandemic of poverty in the world". “And that is why today we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit so that it changes our hearts and helps us to become better. (…) It is the task of all of us, and of all of us, ”he concluded.
A think tank created by the Pope
In mid-March, the Pope created an interdisciplinary reflection group to work for a year on a more virtuous post-Covid 19 world, in all areas. He also announced "a special year Laudato Si", five years after the publication of this very social encyclical on ecology, denouncing in scathing terms the exploitation of men and nature.
On Saturday afternoon, the Pope attended a prayer in the Vatican gardens in the presence, for the first time in almost three months, of nearly a hundred faithful, all broadcast worldwide.
The faithful again authorized Place Saint-Pierre
Since the beginning of the confinement in Italy on March 10, the Vatican has applied the same rules of social distancing as those valid on the peninsula, and the Pope has since received only extremely small delegations.
He stopped his weekly Wednesday hearings and his Sunday prayers from the window of the Apostolic Palace in Saint Peter's Square, replaced by a video broadcast from inside this palace.
Thanks to the progressive deconfinement in Italy, he will start again Sunday to recite his Sunday prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace in front of the faithful, authorized for one week to assemble again on the place Saint-Pierre.
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