Pope Francis from the hospital: we must disarm minds and earth

Pope Francis claimed a new diplomacy that has greater “credibility” and condemned the use of war as a solution to conflicts in a letter sent to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

“The war only devastates communities and the environment, without offering solutions to conflicts,” said the 88 -year -old Pontiff, from the Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital in Rome, where he has been admitted since February 14 with bilateral pneumonia.

The letter, sent to the director of the Italian newspaper, Luciano Fontana, in response to a close message before his fragile physical condition, was signed by the Pontiff on March 14, but published on Tuesday.

“I would like to thank you for the words of closeness with which you wanted to become present at this time of illness in which, as I have had the opportunity to say, the war seems even more absurd. In effect, human fragility has the power to become more lucid with respect to what lasts already what happens, to what makes us live already what it kills,” writes the Holy Father.

In this sense, he reflects on the tendency of today’s society to deny often “the limits and to avoid fragile and wounds.”

For Pope Francis, precisely these people “have the power to question the direction we have chosen, as individuals and as a community.”

It also calls journalists and communicators to give the value that words have to build stories that connect.

“I would like to encourage you and all those who dedicate your work and intelligence to inform, through the communication tools that now unite our world in real time: they feel the importance of words. They are never just words: they are facts that build human environments. They can connect or divide, serve the truth or use it,” says Pope Francis.

Need for calm and reflection

Thus, the Pontiff urges to “disarm the words”, and then “disarm minds and disassemble the earth.”

“There is a great need for reflection, calm, meaning of complexity,” he emphasizes the letter.

He also considers that the war “only devastates communities and the environment, without offering solutions to conflicts.”

In this regard, he claims the work of “diplomacy and international organizations”, although he indicates that “they need new blood and credibility.”

In addition, he affirms that religions “can resort to the spirituality of peoples to revive the desire for fraternity and justice, the hope of peace.”

“All this demands commitment, work, silence, words. Let’s feel united in this effort, that the heavenly grace will not stop inspired and accompany,” concludes Pope Francis.