This is a Vatican Radio English translation of a broadcast made by Pope Francis after lunch on Saturday 27 July 2013, when he visited the
studios of " Cathedral Radio" in Rio de Janeiro, where he spoke the
following words:
Good morning, good evening to all the listeners. Thank you for your
attention here and I thank the members of the Radio for the kindness in
giving me the microphone. I thank them and I'm looking at the radio and I
see that media today is very important. I would say that a radio, a
Catholic Radio pulpit today is the closest we have. And 'where we can
announce, through radio, human values, religious values, and above all
to proclaim Jesus Christ, the Lord; give the Lord the grace to make room
for Him in our lives. So I greet you and thank you for all the effort
of this archdiocese to have a radio and keep it, with a network so
great. To all you listeners I ask you to pray for me, pray for this
radio, to pray for the bishop, to pray for the Archdiocese, so that we
unite in prayer and work, as the priest said earlier, for a more human
culture, more rich in values, and does not exclude anyone. That we all
work for that word that isn’t liked these days: solidarity. It 'a word
that one tends to try to put aside, again, because it is annoying and
yet it is a word that reflects the human and Christian values that
today we are urged to go against - as the priest repeated a little while
ago - the culture of waste , according to which everything is
excludable. A culture that always leaves out the people: excludes the
children, excludes the young, the elderly, excludes all those who are
not needed, that do not produce and this can not be! In contrast,
solidarity includes all. You must continue to work for this culture of
solidarity and for the Gospel.
The Pope is asked a question on the importance of the family:
Not
only would say that the family is important for the evangelization of
the New World, The family is important, it is necessary for the survival
of humanity. If there is no family, the cultural survival of humanity
is at risk. The family, like it or not, is the basis.
