American-Peruvian Pontiff expressed that ‘even today there is no shortage of contexts in which the Christian faith is considered absurd and instead of it preferred other security guards, such as money, success, power and pleasure’ ‘
O began to celebrate this Friday (9) the first mass of his pontificate, which aroused hope in the world with his appeals of peace, aligned with the speech of the predecessor . The second pontiff of the Americas, born in If he has Peruvian citizenship, he was elected on Thursday after two days of conclave. His election as 267th Pope of the Church and spiritual leader of 1.4 billion Catholics in the world was a surprise to many faithful.
During the celebration that marks the first steps of his papacy, Leo XIV lamented the decline of faith in favor of “money”, “power or pleasure” and asked the Catholic Church to be a “lighthouse that illuminates the nights of the world.” “There is still no shortage of contexts in which the Christian faith is considered an absurd thing for weak and unintelligent people; contexts in which instead of it prefer other security guards, such as technology, money, success, power, and pleasure,” said the American-Peruvian pontiff in his first homily as Pope.
The “immigrant Papa” also warned this morning against the idea of reducing the figure of Jesus to a “charismatic leader or superman,” in an apparent message to evangelical Christians on his first Mass as leader of the Catholic Church. “Even today, there is no shortage of contexts in which Jesus, although appreciated as a man, is simply reduced to a kind of charismatic or superman leader, and this not only among non-believers, but also among many baptisms, who end up living at this level in practical atheism,” he said in his first homily as Pope.
*With AFP
Posted by Victor Oliveira
