Pope Francisco asserted that in Latin America "there has not always been political maturity"

Pope Francis believes that "in Latin America"there was not always a political maturity"and says that the religious they must be involved but always impartially, during a conversation with the Central American Jesuits published on Thursday.

The Pope had a dialogue during his recent trip to Panama with a group of Jesuits from Central America and one of them asked what position should a religious adopt before politics, as published by the magazine of the Society of Jesus The Civiltá Cattolica.

Francisco defended the involvement of the Church in politics by emphasizing that "The Gospel is a political expression"because it alludes to society, although often this practice is scorned.

"It is true that the word" political "is sometimes even despised and understood as a party logic, political sectarianism, with all that that implies in Latin America in terms of political corruption, political sarcism, etc.", he declared. .

The pope explained that "political commitment for a religious does not mean military in a political party"and said that"the task is to be on the parties"

"Not in the sense of who's washing their hands, but like the one that accompanies the parties so that they reach a maturity, bringing the point of view of Christian doctrine. In Latin America, there has not always been a political maturity"he said.

In this sense, Francisco, the first pope of Latin America, spoke of "problems of political relevance"and he quoted first"the new colonization", the ideological and cultural.

"Colonization is not just the one that took place when the Spaniards and the Portuguese came and took possession of these lands. This is a type of physical colonization. Today, ideological and cultural colonization is in fashion, it is they who dominate the world, "he said.

Another problem, in his opinion, is that of torture in the world today, since he warned that "we get used to cruelty"and finally denounced the judicial convictions"hopeless"or that they are not aimed at reintegrating prisoners.