{"id":31268,"date":"2017-10-05T07:58:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T23:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/home\/?p=31268"},"modified":"2017-10-05T07:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T23:58:51","slug":"you-cant-change-politics-watching-from-a-balcony-pope-francis-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/you-cant-change-politics-watching-from-a-balcony-pope-francis-says\/","title":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t change politics watching from a balcony, Pope Francis says"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”on” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Image Caption” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Arial||||” text_font_size=”12″ text_line_height=”1.3em” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”||30px|” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]\n

VATICAN\u2014 On Sunday Pope Francis said that we can\u2019t improve our political landscape by observing and judging from afar, but that it involves personal involvement, which should always be done in a spirit of charity and helpfulness.<\/p>\n

\u201cTry to act personally instead of just looking and criticizing the work of others from the balcony,\u201d the Pope said Oct. 1.<\/p>\n

But make your advice constructive, he continued. \u201cIf the politician is wrong, go tell him, there are so many ways to say, \u2018But I think that would be better like so, like so\u2026\u2019 Through the press, the radio\u2026 But say it constructively.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd do not look out from the balcony, look at her from the balcony waiting for her to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pope Francis spoke to people in the Italian town of Cesena during a day trip to Cesena and Bologna Oct. 1. In Cesena he met with citizens of the town and with priests, religious and lay people at the city\u2019s cathedral.<\/p>\n

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Cesena was the birthplace of Pope Pius VI and Pope Pius VII. Also in the 19th century Francesco Xaverio Castiglione (the future Pope Pius VIII) was bishop of Cesena, thus giving the city its nickname of the \u201ccity of the three popes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pope Francis at the General Audience April 20, 2016. DANIEL IBANEZ\/CNA<\/p><\/div>\n

In Bologna the Pope\u2019s schedule included meetings with migrants and refugees, clergy and religious, academics and students, and workers and the unemployed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe authentic face of politics and its reason for being,\u201d Francis said, is \u201can invaluable service to the good of the whole community. And that is why the Church\u2019s social doctrine regards it as a noble form of charity.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order to re-establish the independence and the ability of politics to serve the public good, he continued, we must \u201cact in such a way as to diminish inequalities, to promote the welfare of families with concrete measures, to provide a solid framework of rights-duties \u2013 balance both \u2013 and make them effective for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Therefore, the Pope said, from the centrality of the \u201cpiazza\u201d \u2013 the square \u2013 goes out the message that it is \u201cessential to work together for the common good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI invite you to consider the nobility of political action in the name and favor of the people,\u201d he said. In recent years, the true aim of politics has appeared to retreat in the face of aggression and financial power.<\/p>\n

Thus, we must \u201crediscover the value\u201d of this essential part of society and give our contribution \u2013 recognizing the need for political ideas to be held up to reality and reshaped as necessary.<\/p>\n

We shouldn\u2019t claim an impossible perfection from those in public life, he stated, but we should still \u201cdemand\u201d from politicians \u201cthe coherence of commitment, preparation, moral rectitude, initiative, forbearance, patience and strength of spirit in addressing today\u2019s challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

This won\u2019t fix everything quickly or easily, of course, he continued. \u201cThe magic wand doesn\u2019t work in politics.\u201d But if a politician does wrong: constructively tell them, he encouraged.<\/p>\n

We all make mistakes, Francis said. And when we do, we should apologize, return to a right path and go on.<\/p>\n

Concluding, he said that it is the right of everyone to have a voice in politics, but especially we should listen to \u201cthe young and the elderly.\u201d To young people because they are the ones with the energy to do things, and to the elderly because they have the wisdom and authority of life.<\/p>\n

The people expect from good politics the defense and \u201charmonious development\u201d of their heritage and its best potential, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us pray to the Lord for the raising of good politicians who really care for society, the people and the good of the poor.\u201d (Hannah Brockhaus \/ CNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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