IGK izrazio sau?eš?e povodom smrti pape Franje!

 

IGK izrazio sau?eš?e povodom smrti pape Franje! 

Papa Franjo: „Sarajevo je evropski Jeruzalem“?.

S tugom smo  primili vijest o smrti pape Franje, ?ovjeka ?ija je duhovna snaga, humanost i dosljedna borba za mir i pravdu ostavila dubok trag u svijetu. 

 

?Papa Franjo ostat ?e upam?en kao ?ovjek pravde i humanosti. Njegov nesebi?an doprinos ?ovje?anstvu do posljednjeg dana života bio je mir, solidarnost, pravda i ljudsko dostojanstvo.

Bio je istinski prijatelj Bosne i Hercegovine i cijelog svijeta, a svoj odnos prema BiH i njenim narodima iskazao je i posjetom Sarajevu, u junu 2015.

Svojim izvanrednim moralnim autoritetom, papa Franjo predstavljao je snažan duhovni oslonac svim ljudima dobre volje diljem svijeta.

Svijet i Rimokatoli?ka crkva ostali su bez istinskog borca za razumijevanje i ljubav me?u narodima, posebno za mir u cijelom svijetu.

IGK upu?uje svim katolicima u svijetu, izraze sau?eš?a povodom smrti poglavara Rimokatoli?ke crkve, Svetog Oca pape Franje.

 

„Sarajevo, baš kao i BiH, ima posebno zna?enje za Evropu i ?itav svijet. Stolje?ima su na ovim prostorima prisutne zajednice koje ispovijedaju razli?ite vjere te pripadaju razli?itim narodima i kulturama, zajednice bogate u svojim posebnostima te ponosne na svoju jedinstvenu tradiciju. Sve ovo tokom dugo vremena nije predstavljalo poteško?e u me?usobnim prijateljskim i srda?nim odnosima. ?ak nam i sama arhitektonska struktura Sarajeva govori ovome u prilog, jer se u svom urbanisti?kome spletu u neposrednoj blizini uzdižu sinagoge, crkve i džamije te je grad s pravom dobio naziv 'europskog Jeruzalema'. On zapravo predstavlja jedno veliko raskrižje kultura, naroda i vjera, a takva uloga zahtijeva da se uvijek iznova grade novi mostovi te da se postoje?i istovremeno obnavljaju i ?uvaju, kako bi se osigurali djelotvorni, sigurni i civilizirani odnosi“, rekao je papa Franjo u Sarajevu. Papa je naglasio kako je ljudima potreban dijalog pun povjerenja, tako da pojedinci, porodice i zajednice mogu prenositi vrijednosti vlastite kulture i prihva?ati sve ono dobro u tu?im iskustvima. „Na ovaj bi na?in mogle zacijeliti ?ak i velike rane nedavne prošlosti, a na budu?nost bi se gledalo s nadom, te bismo se, slobodni od svakoga straha i mržnje, suo?avali sa svakodnevnim problemima s kojima je svaka gra?anska zajednica pozvana suo?iti se“, rekao je papa. Papa Franjo je ponovio da je BiH sastavni dio Evrope te naglasio potrebu zajedništva. „U ovoj Zemlji mir i sloga me?u Hrvatima, Srbima i Bošnjacima te poticaji kojima se u posljednje vrijeme njeguje taj sklad, kao i srda?ni i bratski odnosi izme?u muslimana, židova i krš?ana imaju važnost koja seže daleko izvan granica BiH. Ovim se daje svjedo?anstvo cijelome svijetu da je saradnja me?u razli?itim narodima i religijama u svrhu op?ega dobra itekako mogu?a“, rekao je papa Franjo u Sarajevu. Dodao je da se i najdublje rane mogu izlije?iti zajedni?kim hodom koji pro?iš?ava sje?anja i daje nadu za budu?nost.

 

Canadians remember Pope Francis for historic apology for residential schools

Pope Francis, who took the world by storm with his non-traditional papacy and made history for delivering a long-awaited apology for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in Canadian residential school abuses against Indigenous people, has died at age 88.

Legacy in Canada

In Canada, Francis’s legacy was underlined by his apology before an Indigenous delegation in Rome in April 2022 and nearly four months later for a six-day visit on Canadian soil.

It was considered a watershed moment for the country’s Indigenous people, who had been requesting a papal apology for decades, especially following the discovery of unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools.

Indigenous people described physical, emotional and sexual abuse, malnourishment, neglect, cultural destruction and forced assimilation at the government-funded residential schools, which the church mostly operated for more than a century.

“I am here because the first step of my penitential pilgrimage among you is that of again asking forgiveness, of telling you once more that I am deeply sorry. Sorry for the ways in which, regrettably, many Christians supported the colonizing mentality of the powers that oppressed the Indigenous peoples,” Francis said in his official apology in Canada to First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples in his native tongue of Spanish, which was translated to English.

He made the remarks, which were met with applause and cheers, before residential school survivors and their families in Maskwacis, Alta., south of Edmonton, at the site of a former residential school on July 25, 2022.

Though not all were satisfied with his gesture, many also praised Francis for making the journey to Canada despite health difficulties.

Phil Fontaine, a former Assembly of First Nations national chief and a residential school survivor, called it “a momentous occasion.”

“Without an apology, it would be impossible to forgive,” he told The Canadian Press, while reflecting on the event in July 2023, a year after the pope’s historic admission. “And without forgiveness, there can’t be any true healing.”

Some criticized Francis for not going far enough with the apology, but he acknowledged during his flight back to Rome that the abuses amounted to genocide.

In addition, the Vatican responded to Indigenous pressure in March 2023 and officially rejected the centuries-old Doctrine of Discovery, which legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Indigenous lands.

“An apology does not ease the pain of lost children who never returned home, or the legacy First Nations carry as the survivors, their children and their grandchildren. However, we encourage the church to move forward in the spirit of reconciliation by making concrete commitments and true reparations going forward,” Cornell McLean, acting grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, said in a statement during the 2022 papal visit.