Francisco does not support Guaidó | He asked to avoid a "d …

In the dialogue he had with the journalists on the plane that brought him back to Rome after his five-day visit to Panama, Pope Francis stated that "it would be a pastoral imprudence on my part and that it would wrong "to pronounce in favor of Juan Guaidó, the so-called" president in charge "of Venezuela. Thus, Jorge Bergoglio responded directly to the consultation made by one of the communicators who was part of the papal trip and reiterated that "I support all the Venezuelan people who suffer". And about the international support received by both President Nicolás Maduro and Guaidó, the Pope added that "if I said" listen to these countries or these others ", I would put myself in a role that I do not know. . ".

On Sunday, before leaving Panama, Francisco had asked Venezuela "a just and peaceful solution, respecting human rights". Although the Venezuelan Catholic bishops themselves criticized Maduro, stressing that they do not recognize the legitimacy of the president who resumed his mandate in January, Francisco and the Vatican, through their diplomatic mechanisms, distanced themselves from the conflict and avoided to pronounce. conflicting parties while, as we know, they are still making efforts to find a negotiated and negotiated solution to the Venezuelan political situation. It should be recalled that, despite the opposition of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela, the Pope was represented at the ceremony of taking care of Maduro by the Charges of Interim Case of the Apostolic Nunciature in Caracas , George Koovakod.

Asked now about the meaning of his statements concerning a "just and peaceful solution", the pope stressed that "the words I had said, that I had thought and rethought, I expressed my closeness and it is what I feel. "and reaffirmed the need for an exit in dialogue. "Do not agree, is not it?" he asked. And he reiterated his fears: "I'm afraid of a bloodbath, the problem of violence terrifies me".

Referring to violence, the pope also had words for Colombia. "After all the efforts made by Colombia, what happened at the police school is appalling, I have to be a pastor and, if they need help, they can accept and ask for it, "he said. open doors to the eventual collaboration of the Vatican to overcome differences, both in one country and in another. In previous years, the Holy See actively participated as guarantor of the peace dialogue in Colombia.

During the meeting with reporters, other statements also took place. The Pope has declared himself favorable to priestly celibacy "except in exceptional circumstances" and to bad education. "In schools, you have to give bad education, baduality is a gift from God, it's not a monster, it's a gift from God to love," he said. But he noted that "you have to give objective badual education, without ideological colonization, if you start giving bad education full of ideological colonization, you destroy the person, but bad as a gift of God must be educated".

In this regard, Francisco said that "the ideal is to start at home, although this is not always possible, because in the families, the situations are very varied and that, consequently, the school provides them, otherwise, there would be a gap. " he will be filled with all ideology ".