The Pope calls for “taking a stand” against injustices and inequalities.
Vatican City, Nov 22 (EFE)
Pope Leo XIV urged people on Saturday to “take a stand” against “injustices and inequalities,” where “human dignity is trampled” and “the vulnerable are silenced,” during a Jubilee audience in St. Peter’s Square.
“Faced with injustices, inequalities, where human dignity is trampled, where the vulnerable are silenced: take a stand,” Leo XIV affirmed, adding that it is necessary to “show with actions that things must not continue as before.”
During his address, the American pontiff, who also holds Peruvian citizenship, recalled the figure of American journalist Dorothy Day, whom he described as an example of a “peacemaker.”
Day, the Pope explained, understood that “her country’s development model did not generate equal opportunities”; that “the dream for many was a nightmare”; and that, as a Christian, “she had to get involved with workers, with migrants, with those discarded by an economy that kills.”
“I wrote like a journalist, that is, I thought and made others think. Writing is important. And so is reading, now more than ever,” he added.
And he concluded: “That’s what peacemakers are like: they take a stand, bear the consequences, but keep going.”
Before the audience for the Jubilee of Choirs, which this weekend will bring together more than 35,000 pilgrims from 117 countries in Rome, Leo XIV toured the packed square in the popemobile to greet the faithful.
