Pope Francis says social and
cultural change may be threatening the existence of Christianity.
The pontiff said this on Saturday
while addressing the Roman curia during the traditional exchange of Christmas
greetings at the Clementine Hall at the Vatican.
He said at a time, it was easier
to distinguish between two fairly defined sides; a Christian world on one hand
and a world yet to be evangelised on the other.
“Now this situation no longer
exists. The people who have not yet heard the proclamation of the gospel no
longer live on non-Western continents only: they live everywhere, especially in
the enormous urban concentrations that themselves require specific pastoral
care,” he said.
“In large cities, we need other
‘maps’, other paradigms, to help us reposition our ways of thinking and our
attitudes: we are not in Christian times, not anymore.
“The new culture, marked by
convergence and multimedia, needs an adequate response from the apostolic see
in the field of communication. Today, compared to diversified services, the
multimedia model prevails, and this indicates how to conceive, think about and
implement them. All this implies, together with cultural change, an
institutional and personal conversion to move from working in watertight
compartments – which in the best cases had some coordination – to working
intrinsically connected, in synergy.
“The Church is called to remind
everyone that it is not only a question of social or migratory issues but of
human beings, brothers and sisters who today are the symbol of all those who
are discarded by the globalised society. It is called to testify that for God
no one is a ‘foreigner’ or ‘excluded’. It is called to awaken consciences
dormant in their indifference to the reality of the Mediterranean Sea which has
become a cemetery for many, too many.”
The leader of the Catholics said
the church must beware of being tempted to assume a position of rigidity.
The rigidity, he said comes from
fear of change, and ends up disseminating limitations and obstacles on the
terrain of the common good, turning it into a minefield of incomprehension and
hatred.
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