The Pope recalls that all immigrants leave their land “out of necessity”

He Pope Francisco expressed regret for the drama and “serious problem” of the immigrants undocumented, of all those who migrate “for necessity”, and denounced that Africa It’s still a continent.”exploited” by foreign powers that “they put their industries there not to grow the country, but to bring”.

From Vatican City and in an interview in Spanish with Telemundo journalist Julio VaqueiroFrancisco spoke of his own history as the son of immigrants (his father was a bank accountant in Italy when they immigrated to Argentina) and assured, nostalgic for his Argentine land, that “you always leave something”.

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An emigrant always “the native air is missing. You lack the native air. The mate that your mother, your aunt, or your grandmother gives you freshly made is not the same as the one that you make yourself”, he answered the journalist’s question.

He also spoke with the Hispanic reporter about his health, abortion, sexual abuse, changes within the Church and the request made by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyamong other topics.

Regarding these ten years of papacy and the changes experienced, Francis said that “many things have changed” in the Catholic Churchbut what he put into practice was what “the cardinals in the pre-conclave meetings had said that we had to do”.

“And when I was elected I put those things into practice: the economic system, the new laws of the Vatican State, the pastoral care of the Vatican servicewhich is very important“, accurate.

In this context of change, he stressed that, “In part of that pastorality, women entered (…) who are very executive, very practical: the lieutenant governor is a woman. And many things have changed”, the Pope pointed out in the interview

Francis, who was elected pope in 2013 when he was cardinal Jorge bergoglioin Buenos Aires (Argentina), his hometown, played down the importance by saying that “all this was requested by the cardinals in the pre-conclave meetings”.

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The meeting took place in the Vatican shortly before a meeting with young people from the foundation Occurring Scholaswhich he created in his native country 30 years ago and since he became pope has spread to the world, the Hispanic chain reported.

Asked what he still has to do, the 86-year-old pope said that “all”.

“As you are doing, you realize that you lack everything, this is an insatiable thing”, he commented to the journalist.

Asked about abortion, a topic of debate “very big” now in USAHe stressed that, “a month after conception, before the mother knows it, the whole system is drawn in and the DNA is clear. she is a living being”.

“Is it lawful to eliminate a living being to solve a problem? Is it lawful to hire a hitman to solve a problem?the pope wondered.

About the war in Ukraine He believed that it is “a political problem” and “peace will be achieved the day that the two of them can talk, or the two of them or through others”.

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Regarding his state of health (he recently suffered severe bronchitis) and his knee problems, he said he was “better” and that he can now walk.

“The knee was getting fixed and before he couldn’t walk. Now I have walked again. There are days that are more painful, like today. There are days that not, but it is part of the development“, said.

Source: Elcomercio

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