Pope Francis felt it was not Christian to go to the diviners

Pope Francis reminded that it was incoherent to call oneself a Christian and go and read a hand to a fortune-teller: "It's superstition, it's not about God, "he said.

"How many who say they are Christians will read their hand to a fortune-teller or a fortune-teller," he lamented in his reflections before the Angelus prayer on St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

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In his teaching, the Holy Father called for the consistency of Christians with the Gospel.

"It is," said the pontiff, "not to live hypocritically, but to be willing to pay the price of the election according to the Gospel. It is the attitude that each one of us must look for in life: coherence and pay the price of being compatible with the Gospel ".

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Francisco insisted: "It is good to be called a Christian, but first and foremost one must be a Christian in concrete situations, testifying to the gospel that it is essentially about". love for God and for the brothers. "

In this sense, he recalled the words of Jesus that can be read in the gospel of this Sunday, words "that may be disconcerting at first sight": "Do you think I am here to give peace to the earth? No, I badure you, but division. "

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The pope explained that Jesus had come to separate "good from evil, just from unjust. In this sense, he came to "divide", to put in "crisis" the life of his disciples, breaking the easy illusions of those who believe they can combine Christian life and commitments of all kinds, religious practices and attitudes towards others, to combine true religiosity with superstitious practices. "

Source: Aciprensa