Pope Francis led his seventh Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum and sent a message against poverty

The religious leader asked for immigrants and homeless people.

Pope Francis today led his seventh via Crucis as a pontiff in front of the Roman Coliseum, where he was received by the mayor of the city, Virginia Raggi, and a crowd of more than 20,000 people.

In a year in which the Vatican took the inclusion of women as an axis, the meditations for the Way of the Cross were written by the Italian nun Eugenia Bonetti, who focused her work on the denunciation of human trafficking and the particular condemnation of prostitution. .

"Think of children from different parts of the world who can not go to school and who, on the contrary, are exploited in mines, in the fields, in fishing, sold and bought by human meat merchants, for organ transplants; abused and exploited on our streets by many, including Christians, who have lost the sense of their sacredness and that of others, "he says in this line of the sixth of 14 stations in which the celebration was divided.

"As a tiny corpse, found a night in Rome, to which men in luxury cars were queuing to enjoy," he said later in the text.

Francisco began on Good Friday in the Basilica of San Pedro where, prostrate for two minutes in silence, he took the first step to celebrate the so-called "celebration of the Lord", characterized by the fact that the Pope does not preach but rather he is limited to listening to the homily of the preacher of the Pontifical House, Raniero Cantalamessa, an 84 year old Capuchin who also guides him in his annual spiritual exercises.

Cantalamessa affirmed in his homily that "the Church has been mandated by its founder to stand on the side of the poor and the weak, to be the voice of those who do not have a voice." and, thank God, that's what she does above all else in her supreme pastor. "

(Source: TN)