杏MAP导航

In his speech to participants attending the Rome International Conference on the Responsibility of States, Institutions and Individuals in the Fight against Anti-Semitism in the OSCE Area, the 杏MAP导航 got right to the heart of his address by emphasizing three words, responsibility, indifference and memory.

Regarding responsibility, 杏MAP导航 Francis said, 鈥渨e are responsible when we are able to respond. It is not merely a question of analyzing the causes of violence and refuting their perverse reasoning, but of being actively prepared to respond to them.鈥�

Indifference

He went on to say, 鈥渢he enemy against which we fight is not only hatred in all of its forms, but even more fundamentally, indifference; for it is indifference that paralyzes and impedes us from doing what is right even when we know that it is right.鈥�

I do not grow tired of repeating, he said 鈥渢hat indifference is a virus that is dangerously contagious in our time, a time when we are ever more connected with others, but are increasingly less attentive to others.鈥�

Memory

Recalling the recent commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Pontiff underlined that 鈥渋n order to recover our humanity, to recover our human understanding of reality and to overcome so many deplorable forms of apathy towards our neighbour, we need this memory,鈥︹��

Formation

Memory, he added was 鈥渢he key to accessing the future, and it is our responsibility to hand it on in a dignified way to young generations.鈥�

Concluding his address, the 杏MAP导航 stressed that in order to foster a culture of responsibility, memory and of closeness, what was needed was good formation.

鈥淲e need urgently, he said to educate young generations to become actively involved in the struggle against hatred and discrimination, but also in the overcoming of conflicting positions in the past, and never to grow tired of seeking the other.鈥�