The Pope has asked the parents to have verified "Different sexual orientations in children" that they do not hide behind attitudes of condemnation and that they are capable of "accompany them".
Francisco has listed, during the general audience this Wednesday, January 26, which he has presided over before dozens of faithful in the Paul VI Hall of the Vatican, certain painful circumstances that can appear in the life of parents as "the illness" or "even more painful" the death of a son in a traffic accident.
"I think of parents facing their children’s problems: children with so many illnesses, sick children, also with permanent illnesses. How much pain there! Parents who see different sexual orientations in their children and how to manage this and accompany their children and not hide behind a condemning attitude; parents who see their children leaving because of illness"the Pontiff has declared.
Francis has thus attacked the attitude that condemns the behavior of children and has asked parents "smoothness". "Never condemn a son", has urged. In this way, he has remembered his experience when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, he would go by bus and pass in front of the prison where he would see some people queuing to enter to visit them.
"It made me very tender when I passed the prison and there was a line of people who were going to visit the prisoners. And there were the mothers. It produced so much tenderness in me, seeing mothers who, faced with a son who has made a mistake and who is in jail, do not leave him alone, show his face and accompany him. Courage of mother and father who always accompany their children"has affected
The Pope has urged us to think about how these people can be helped: "Let’s think about how to help them. There is so much pain! Think of the Lord, how he has solved the problems".
So he remembered "the many people who are crushed by the weight of life and can no longer hope or pray". However, he has specified that prayer is not "never" a gesture "abstract or intimate" which is more typical of agnostics and not of Christians. The Pope has made it clear that prayer "is always indissolubly linked to charity and love".
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