The Pope recalls the soul of Europe

Il Papa richiama l’anima dell’Europa

EN | IT – A whirlwind visit, that very busy “off day”, as Francis himself called it, as he was flying from Rome to Strasbourg. But, in just four hours in the European Palaces, the Pontiff managed once again to stir atheists and Catholics alike or plain curious people, and to send “another message of hope and encouragement”. The 360-degree issues tackled by Francis are not new, some had already been addressed by John Paul II in the speech he gave in Strasbourg in 1988, but hearing them again from a Latin American Pope (“but of European descent” as the President of the European Parliament Martin Schultz called him), right in the midst of the Parliamentary Assembly, which occasionally passes amendments that are against Christian morality, such as the gender theory, is impressive.