From Romania, Pope Francis criticized the "logic of money and power" that reigns in the world

From Romania, where he went to strengthen his ties with the Orthodox Church, Pope Francis denounced the "logic of money and the interests of power" who reign in a world immersed in "a the consumerism more and more unbridled"

On this first day of travel to Romania, the Pope presided over the Lord's Prayer with Patriarch Daniel III of the Romanian Orthodox Church and explained some of his pbadages.

Francisco stopped especially in the part which says "come to us your kingdom", emphasizing that this desire is due to the fact that "the dynamics of the world does not facilitate" this advent.

"A dynamic guided by the logic of money, the interests of power When we find ourselves immersed in an increasingly frantic consumerism, captivating dazzling gleams but ephemeral, help us Father to believe in what we implore ", did he declare.

The pontiff called "to renounce the comfortable badurances of power, deceptive seductions of worldliness, the vain presumptions of self-confidence, the hypocrisy of the maintenance of appearances".

Francisco went on with his Ecumenical Calls advance in the Christian unity, according to his recent travels to Bulgaria and North Macedonia, with an orthodox majority, and he dedicated this prayer along the path of "fraternity" between the two churches.

He did this by explaining the part of "Our daily bread" of the Lord's prayer: "We also implore you the bread of memory, the grace that strengthens the common roots of our Christian identity."

Roots in his opinion "indispensable at this time when humanity, and the younger generations in particular, run the risk of feel uprooted in the midst of so many fluid situations, unable to cement life, "he explained.

In this sense, the pope attacked a situation in which "many lack bread every day while some have the superfluity"and affirmed that" individualism and indifference profaned "the name of God.

The pope and the patriarch of Romania left the temple together to bless the faithful who were waiting for them at their door, then Francisco set the course for his visit to the Cathedral of San José, where he will officiate the Mbad, last act of this first day of apostolic journey. .