The Vatican has released the pope's
meditations for the Good Friday Way of the Cross procession at
the Colosseum in which, among other things, he says that "our
broken world" calls for "tears that are heartfelt and not merely
perfunctory".
Cardinal Baldo Reina will preside over the procession on behalf
of the pope, who is recovering from a life-threatening case of
bilateral pneumonia.
Although he is meant to be convalescing for two months after
ending a five-week spell in hospital for treatment on March 23,
the 88-year-old pontiff has made a series of surprise
appearances at recent Church services.
In the meditations Francis called on the faithful to understand
"God's economy", which unlike today's economies "of calculation
and algorithms, of cold logic and implacable interests... does
not kill, discard or crush... it is lowly, faithful to the
earth."
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