Pope Francis lamented today "the closed doors" to migrants in the homily of the mass that he presided over about 50,000 people in Kossuth Lajos Square in Budapest, on the last day of his three-day visit to Hungary.
In this magnificent setting, before the Hungarian Parliament, the Pope indicated to all Christians in this country, where Viktor Orban's government maintains a hard-fisted policy against migration, that they are "invited to welcome and spread their love, to make May your fold be inclusive and never exclusive.
Francis said that Jesus "prompts us to go to meet the brothers." "And let us remember it well: all of us, without exception, are called to this, to leave our comforts and have the courage to reach all the peripheries that need the light of the Gospel", he stressed.
In the presence of Orban, who considers himself a great defender of Christian values, and the president, Katalin Novák, the Pope stressed that all Christians must "go out", which means "become, like Jesus, a open door".
"It is sad and it hurts to see closed doors: the closed doors of our egoism towards those who walk with us every day, the closed doors of our individualism in a society that risks atrophying in solitude," lamented Francisco, who in this Viaje has advocated several times for the reception and charity towards migrants.
And he continued: "The closed doors of our indifference to those who are plunged into suffering and poverty; the doors closed to the foreigner, to the one who is different, to the migrant, to the poor", said the Pope from a country that has created barbed wire. to prevent the passage of migrants who come from the Balkan route and which practically does not grant the right of asylum.
But on the other hand, he also criticized those who within the Church close the doors to those who "are not in order" or to those who "long for God's forgiveness."
"Please, let's open the doors. Let's also try with words, gestures, daily activities, to be like Jesus, an open door, a door that never closes in anyone's face, a door that allows you to enter to experience the beauty of the Lord's love and forgiveness", added the Pontiff.
In his homily, he also urged bishops and priests "not to take advantage of their position" and "not to oppress the flock that has been entrusted to them."
And to the laity, to catechists and "to those who have political and social responsibilities, to those who simply carry out their daily lives, sometimes with difficulty" the Argentine Pope insisted that "they be open doors."
"To be open and inclusive with each other, to help Hungary grow in fraternity," Francis told them, who this afternoon, after a speech to the academic and university world, will return to Rome.
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