![]() Who sells these weapons? Who is responsible? I would ask these who sell the weapons to at least have the sincerity to say, ‘We sell the weapons’.” COVID prison and future trips “Because they don’t build these weapons at home. “Something that came to mind in the church is this: who sells these weapons to these destructors?” he said. With out experience in Mosul, these destroyed churches, animosities, wars, and now the so called Islamic State begins to spin. ![]() “Human cruelty, our cruelty, is impossible to believe,” he said. Not only that church, but others too, and a mosque, that evidently was not aligned with these people.” “When I stopped at the destructed church, I had no words. “I had seen things, I had read a book, but touches you,” he said. Journalists had asked the pope if he had considered the possibility that his events in Iraq could become spreaders of coronavirus and, as such, lead to people getting sick and potentially dying.įrancis said that the idea of a trip to Iraq first began to simmer thanks to the insistence of the former Iraqi ambassador to the Holy See, but above all, the witness of Yazidi survivor and Nobel Peace prize winner Nadia Murad, who wrote the book Last Girl, recounting what the group experienced at the hands of the Islamic State.įrancis admitted that he did not expect to find the ruins he found in Mosul, the city that was the “capital” of the self-proclaimed Islamic caliphate by terrorist Islamic State. He made the decision, he insisted, after much prayer, and “knowing the risks.” And I said, ‘May he who makes me decide this way, take care of the people.” Putting on the scale the COVID-19 risks and everything else, he said, “I made the decision freely, but it came from inside. ![]() He’s a light.”Ĭatholics, he said, also have these wise men, they are everywhere, often as the “saints next door.” IraqĪsked about his decision to make the trip to Iraq despite the many challenges the visit posed- from a global pandemic to suicide bombings and rocket attacks – Francis said that when he gets inspired to make a trip, he asks for counsel, listens to the advice of many, and above all, prays and thinks his decision through. “He’s a humble and wise man, and it was good for my soul to encounter him. He also said that al-Sistani had been “very respectful,” highlighting that the Muslim leader had stood up twice to greet him, when he never stands up to great others. “He told me that for the past ten years, he hasn’t welcomed visitors who had political or cultural motives, only religious.” “He’s a person who has wisdom and prudence,” the pope said about the ayatollah. Simply by listening to him one can perceive this.” He defined his encounter with al-Sistani not as a message to Iran, which officially does not recognize the authority of the Grand Ayatollah, but to the world, and acknowledged that he had felt “the duty to do this pilgrimage of faith and penitence, to encounter a wise man, a man of God. “These choices are not capricious, and it’s the path set forth by the Second Vatican Council,” he said. “These are risks, but these decisions are taken always in prayer, in dialogue, asking for advice.” “You know there are some critics who say the pope is not courageous but unconscious, that he’s taking steps against Catholic doctrine, that he’s one step from heresy,” Francis said. Without prompting, the pontiff acknowledged that when it comes to interreligious dialogue and fostering human fraternity, he takes “risks” because this is “necessary.”
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