Pope Francis at Angelus: on being Christian in the
world
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis prayed
the Angelus with pilgrims and tourists gathered in St.
Peter’s Square on Sunday.
Addressing them ahead of the traditional prayer of Marian
devotion, Pope Francis shared a reflection on the Reading from
the Sunday Gospel, which this week came from St. Matthew and
contains the maxim, “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s,
and render unto God what is God’s.”
Pope Francis explained that the episode teaches
us both the legitimacy of earthly authority and the primacy of God in
human affairs and over all the universe.
“The Christian is called to be concretely
committed in human and social realities,” said Pope Francis,
“without putting God and ‘Caesar’ in contraposition.” He said that
counterposing God and Caesar would be, “a
fundamentalist attitude.”
“The Christian,” Pope Francis continued,
“is called upon to engage concretely in earthly realities, but enlightening
them with the light that comes from God. Entrusting oneself
to God in the first, and placing one’s hope in Him, do not
require us to escape from reality, but rather to work diligently to render unto
Him, all that it His. That is why the believer looks to future reality, to that
of God: that he might live his earthly life in fullness, and
respond with courage to its challenges.”
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