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(© lapresse) Francis Angelus

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Vatican City

Pope Francis talks about the case Vatileaks 2 and defines a “deplorable act that does not help” , even a “crime” the “steal” those cards. But, ensures Bergoglio, this “sad fact I certainly distracts the reform work we are doing with my staff and with the support of all of you “. Words to applause at the end of the Marian prayer in front of a packed St Peter’s Square.

“Dear brothers and sisters, – the Pope said – I know that many of you have been troubled by the news circulated in recent days about confidential documents of the Holy See which were stolen and published. So let me tell you first that steal those documents is a crime. It ‘an act regrettable that does not help. I myself had asked him to do that study, and those documents I and my colleagues already knew them well and steps have been taken that have begun to bear fruit, even some visible “.

‘ So I want to assure you – he added – this sad fact I certainly distracts from the work of reform we are carrying out with my staff and with the support of all of you. Yes, with the support of the whole Church, because the Church is renewed through prayer and holiness of every baptized daily. So I thank you and ask you to continue praying for the Pope and for the Church, without leaving upset but going forward with confidence and hope “.

Before the Angelus, the Pope spoke of the “risk”, even today, to put in first place, rather than God, “their vainglory, their own advantage.” Recalling today’s Gospel in which Jesus condemns the defects of the scribes and Pharisees, “arrogance, greed and hypocrisy” , Bergoglio had dwelt on the fact that under the ‘solemn appearances “of the lawyers’ They are hiding falsehood and injustice. ” “Even today – noted the Pope – there is a risk of taking these attitudes. For example, when separating prayer from justice , because you can not worship God and cause harm to the poor. Or when he says he loves God, and instead is preferred to Him. ”

Citing the poor widow of the Gospel that had given the little that had as an offering to the temple, Francis said: “Jesus, today, also tells us that the yardstick is not the quantity, but the fullness; not a matter of wallet, but of the heart . You can have a lot of money, but to be empty: there is fullness in your heart. Just think, this week, to the difference that exists between quantity and fullness. There is no question of the portfolio, but of the heart. There is a difference between the portfolio and the heart … There are heart disease, they do lower the heart to the portfolio … And that’s not good! Love God “with all your heart” means to trust Him, of His providence, and serve him in our poorest brothers and sisters without expecting anything in return. D the face of the needs of others, we are called to deprive us of something essential, not only from our abundance ; we are called to give the necessary time, not only what it advances; we are called to immediately and unconditionally some of our talent, not after using it for our own purposes or group. ”

The Pope then told, in the arm, a story about a mother in Buenos Aires that was having lunch with her three children. At the door of the house he played a beggar and her mother asked the children how it was to adjust. They said: “Let’s give them something.” Mom cut in half the chops of the children, stunned, to make the sandwich to be delivered to the beggar. “I am sure – said Francis – that afternoon hannno had a bit ‘of hunger. We have to deprive us of something like half of these children cutlets. Because “ true charity – explained – you do not from what we are progressing, from what you need .”

Today in Italy we celebrate Thanksgiving Day, which this year has the theme “The soil, the common good.” “I join – the Pope said – the Bishops in hoping that all act as responsible stewards of a precious public good, the land, the fruits of which have a universal destination. I am close with gratitude to the agricultural world, and encourage you to cultivate the land so keepers of fertility to produce food for all, today and for future generations. In this connection it takes place in Rome the Diocesan Day for the protection of creation, which this year is enriched by the “March for the land. ‘”

The Pontiff added: “Tomorrow, in Florence, will begin the 5th National Congress, with the presence of bishops and delegates from all the Italian dioceses. It is an important event of communion and reflection, to which I will have the joy to participate too, on Tuesday next. I greet with affection all of you, Romans and pilgrims. In particular, the French students in the Paris region, the faithful of Japan and Poland, as well as those of Scandicci. I greet the representatives of the Order of Preachers – Dominicans – who yesterday opened the eighth centenary of the foundation. I wish you all a good Sunday. And do not forget to pray for me! Good lunch and goodbye “