The Pope: “Faith must be a commitment to peace in a world of violence”

Rome, 15 Mar. (LaPresse) – “Today, in particular, given the many questions of the human heart and the dramatic situations of injustice, violence, and suffering that mark our time, there is a need for an awake, attentive, and prophetic faith, which opens the eyes to the darkness of the world and brings the light of the Gospel through a commitment to peace, justice, and solidarity.” Thus spoke Pope Leo XIV during the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square. “We are called to live a Christianity ‘with open eyes’” in a context where there is the opinion that “faith would be a kind of ‘leap into the dark,’ a renunciation of thinking, so that having faith would mean believing ‘blindly’,” the Pope continued. Faith “is not a blind act, an abdication of reason, a settling into some religious certainty that makes us turn our gaze away from the world,” emphasized the Pope, who underlined that “faith helps us to look ‘from Jesus’ point of view’” especially “at the sufferings of others and the wounds of the world”.