Pope begs forgiveness for sins and ‘offences’ of church against indigenous of

In his address to the pope, Morales, who had frequently clashed with Church officials in Bolivia before relations improved when Francis was elected in 2013, welcomed the pope as a homecoming hero.

Repeating a few of the breeds of his signpost encyclical “Laudato Si” throughout the surroundings january, Francis said moment in time appeared to be exhausting to save lots of the globe from perhaps ir-reversible harming the…

He received the Communist crucifix while visiting La Paz in Bolivia, during his ongoing tour of South America.

“Tierra, Techo, Trabajo”, was his mantra then.

Due to Pope Francis losing part of one lung as a young man, he could only stay in La Paz, which is 3,650 metres above sea level, for a few hours, before the thin air meant he had to move on to lower areas of the country.

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: Pope Francis, a champion of the poor and social justice, on Thursday called on a million faithful to reject today’s consumer society, at an open-air mass in Bolivia, South America’s poorest nation.

The pope’s main event of the day was a keynote speech to a summit of grass-roots groups.

“It is a mentality in which everything has a price, everything can be bought, everything is negotiable”, he said.

“I know you are looking for change, but it’s not only you…even among the reduced minority that believes they are benefiting from this system, dissatisfaction rules and there is a lot of sadness (among them)”, said the Pope.

It said the slight was more notable as the Argentine leader of the Catholic Church had praised the social and economic reforms of Morales when he arrived from Ecuador on the second stage of a three-country tour of South America. “There should be no family without a home, no farmer with land, no workers without rights, no people without sovereignty, no person without dignity, no child without childhood, no youth without possibilities, no elderly without venerable old age”.

Local Catholic leaders said the unusual gift fits with Morales’ quirky personality.

But, as Morales explained, the cross was created by Jesuit Father Luis Espinal, who was assassinated in 1980 after being active in the country’s pro-democracy movement.

The Eucharist is a missionary sacrament; it calls people to give all they are and have to God, seek his blessing and then take his love to the world, Pope Francis said at the opening Mass for Bolivia’s national eucharistic congress.

“Faced with so many kinds of hunger in our world, we can say to ourselves: ‘Things don’t add up; we will never manage, there is nothing to be done.’ And so our hearts yield to despair”, he said.

Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said on Thursday the Pope had had no idea that Espinal had designed such a crucifix.

In a blending of the native and new, the famously unpretentious pope changed into his vestments for the Mass in a nearby Burger King.

“It was really from great affection, a work designed by the very hands of Luis Espinal”, Communications Minister Marianela Paco said.