“We have to disarm the words, to disarm minds and disassemble the earth. There is one great need for reflectionof calm, of sense of complexity, ”wrote the 88 -year -old Argentine pontiff to the director of one of Italy’s reference newspapers, Il Corriere Della Sera, in a letter dated March 14.
“War seems even more absurd (…) At the moments of illness, ”added the Pope, admitted to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome by a double pneumonia.
“Human fragility has the power to become more lucid to what lasts and what happens, what makes living and what makes it die,” he said and pointed out that Weapons “devastate communities and the environment, without offering conflict solution.”
In the text, the Pope also launches a call to journalists, “to all those who consecrate their work and intelligence to inform”, asking them to “Capture all the importance of words.”
“They are never just words: They are facts that structure human environments. They can unite or divide, serve the truth or abuse it, ”he added.
In turn, “religions can rely on the spirituality of peoples to revive the desire to Fraternity and justicethe hope of peace, ”he concluded.
After a long critical phase and multiple respiratory crises, The state of Francisco’s health improved and remains stable, although it will remain hospitalized for a time that the Vatican did not specify.
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In the hospital, Francisco has worked when he could, while alternating rest with prayer. Despite its evolution, it continues to speculate with the possibility of leaving office Due to his fragility, following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Benedict XVI.
Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, number two of the Vatican, said Monday 17 at night that At no time raised the question of a possible resignation of the Pope in his charge when he visited him at the hospital.
When asked, Parolin strongly responded: “No, no, no, at all.”
“I saw it a week ago (…) I found it better than the first time“The Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin told the press in Rome.