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| Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, one day after appearing before thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square for Easter Mass. | ||
| Next, we'll take a look back at past remarks made by Pope Francis at Independence Hall in Philadelphia during his visit to the U.S. in 2015. | ||
| He emphasized the importance of religious freedom, urging followers of the various religions to join their voices in calling for peace, tolerance, and respect for the dignity and rights of others. | ||
| As the first pontiff from Latin America, he also talks about immigrants to the U.S., saying they should not be discouraged by hardships and should be responsible citizens. | ||
| Yeah, he's in Samuel. | ||
| He is in the beginning. | ||
| Right in the middle of the screen. | ||
| Yes, honey, he's in the population. | ||
| Here he is. | ||
| Oh, my gosh. | ||
| I feel like it's my favorite. | ||
| Oh, Ethan, let me get up. | ||
| It doesn't seem to me. | ||
| For holiness, | ||
| distinguished guests and friends, the United States is an experiment in freedom, ordered by law, and ordered two basic truths about the human person. | ||
| The greatest good in the American character comes from our belief in a merciful God, a God who guarantees the dignity and rights of all his children. | ||
| Alexander Hamilton was one of America's greatest founding fathers. | ||
| He helped write our Constitution here at Independence Hall. | ||
| He was also one of our greatest immigrants. | ||
| Born in the West Indies, Hamilton was a friend of George Washington. | ||
| He fought in the Revolution, wrote nearly two-thirds of the Federalist papers, and set the United States on a course to become a world power. | ||
| The lesson in his life is simple: this is a nation that no single ethnic group or privileged economic class owns. | ||
| It's a country where a person who comes from nowhere can still make a difference. | ||
| It's a nation where a man who never knew his own birthday, Hamilton was born out of wedlock, can take part in the birth of a new order. | ||
| He reminds us that immigrants from around the world renew this country in every generation. | ||
| They breathe new life into what George Washington called the bosom of America. | ||
| We live in an odd time in history. | ||
| When the Church defends marriage and the family, the unborn child, and the purpose of human sexuality, she is attacked as being too harsh. | ||
| When she defends immigrant workers and families that are broken by deportation, she is attacked as too soft. | ||
| And yet, the church is neither of these things. | ||
| Pope John XXIII, now Saint John XXIII, described the Church as the mother and teacher of humanity, a mother who understands and loves the whole human person from conception to natural death, always, consistently, and everywhere. | ||
| When it comes to immigration, the Church reminds us that in the end, all of us are children of the same loving God that makes us brothers and sisters, despite the borders that separate us. | ||
| And in arguing over borders to keep people out, we need to be vigilant against erecting those same borders in our hearts. | ||
| My dear friends, the person who speaks that truth most powerfully is with us today. | ||
| And I invite the Holy Father, the Son of Immigrants, to share his thoughts with us now. | ||
| Pope Francis. | ||
| One of the highlights of my visit is to be here at Independence Mall. | ||
| Of the States. | ||
| the birthplace of the United States of America. | ||
| It was here that the freedoms which define this country were first proclaimed. | ||
| The Declaration of Independence, which stated that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights and that governments exist to protect and defend those rights. | ||
| These ringing words continue to inspire us today, even as they have inspired peoples throughout the world to fight for the freedom to live in accordance with their dignity. | ||
| But history also shows that these or any truths must constantly be reaffirmed. | ||
| reappropriated and defended. | ||
| The history of this nation is also the tale of a constant effort lasting to our day to embody those lofty principles in social and political life. | ||
| We remember the great struggles which led to the abolition of slavery, the extension of voting rights, the growth of the labor movement, and the gradual effort to eliminate every kind of racism and prejudice directed at the successive waves of new Americans. | ||
| This shows that when a country is determined to remain true to its founding principles, that is a fundamental principle. | ||
| those principles that were foundational and based on respect for human dignity, that country is strengthened and renewed. | ||
| When a country keeps in its memory and remembers its past, it continues to grow and to be renewed and to assume and take into its bosom new peoples. | ||
| All of us benefit a great deal from remembering our past. | ||
| A people which remembers, does not repeat past errors. | ||
| Instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and of the future. | ||
| Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whomever would attempt to dominate it or use it for its own, for their interests. | ||
| When individuals and communities are guaranteed the effective exercise of their rights, not only are they free to realize their own potential, | ||
| but they also connect with this and with their work contribute to the welfare and to the enrichment of all of society in this place, | ||
| which is symbolic of the American way of the model of the United States, I would like to reflect with you on the right to religious freedom. | ||
| It is a fundamental right which shapes the way we interact socially and personally with our neighbors whose religious views differ from our own. | ||
| The ideal of inter-religious dialogue, where all men and women of different religious traditions may dialogue without fighting each other. | ||
| That is what religious freedom gives us. | ||
| Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God individually and in community as our own conscience dictates. | ||
| But on the other hand, religious liberty by its nature transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families, | ||
| because the religious dimension is not a sub-culture, it is a part of any society and any nation. | ||
| Our various religious traditions serve society primarily by the message they proclaim. | ||
| He is a shaman. | ||
| They call individuals and communities to worship God, the source of all life, liberty, and happiness. | ||
| They remind us of the transcendent dimension of human existence and of our irreducible freedom in the face of every claim to absolute power. | ||
| We need but look at history and it's good for us to look at history, especially to the history of this last century to see the atrocities perpetrated by systems which claimed to build one or another earthly paradise by dominating peoples, | ||
| subjecting them to apparently indisputable principles and denying them any kind of rights. | ||
| Our rich religious traditions seek to offer meaning and direction. | ||
| They have an enduring power to open new horizons always, to stimulate thought, to expand the mind and heart. | ||
| They call to conversion, reconciliation, concern for the future of society, to self-sacrifice in the service of the common good and compassion for those in need. | ||
| At the heart of their spiritual mission is the proclamation of the truth and dignity of the human person and of all human rights. | ||
| Our religious traditions remind us that, as human beings, we are called to acknowledge an Other who reveals our relational identity in the face of every effort to impose a uniformity to which the egotism of the powerful, the conformism of the people, the conformism of the people, | ||
| the conformism of the weak, or the ideology of the utopian would seek to impose on us. | ||
| In a world where various forms of modern tyranny seek to suppress religious freedom or, as I've said already, try to reduce it to a subculture without right to a voice or vote in the public square, or to use religion as a pretext for hatred and brutality, | ||
| it is imperative that the followers of the various religions join their voices in calling for peace, for tolerance, and respect for the dignity and rights of others. | ||
| We live in a time subject to the globalization of the technocratic paradigm, which consciously aims at a one-dimensional uniformity and seeks to eliminate all differences and traditions in a superficial quest for unity. | ||
| The religions religions thus have the right and the duty to make clear that it is possible to build a society where a healthy pluralism which truly respects differences and values them as such, | ||
| is a precious ally in the commitment to defending human dignity and a path to peace in our troubled world in our world so harmed by war. | ||
| The Quakers who founded Philadelphia were inspired by a profound evangelical sense of the dignity of each individual as well as by the ideal of a community united by brotherly love. | ||
| This conviction... | ||
| This conviction led them to found a colony which would be a haven of religious freedom and tolerance. | ||
| That sense of fraternal concern for the dignity of all, especially the weak and the vulnerable, became an essential part of the American spirit. | ||
| San Juan Pablo II, during his visit to the United States in 1987, St. John Paul II paid moving homage to this. | ||
| reminding all Americans that the ultimate test of their greatness was the way that every human being would be treated, but especially the weakest and the most defenceless ones. | ||
| I take this opportunity to thank all those who, whatever their religion, have sought to serve God. | ||
| have sought to serve the God of peace by building cities of brotherly love, by caring for neighbors in need, by defending the dignity of the dignity of God's gift of life in all its stages, by defending the cause of the poor and the immigrants. | ||
| Too often, those most in need everywhere are unable to be heard. | ||
| You are their voice, and many of you, men and women, religious, have made their cry heard with this witness, which frequently encounters powerful resistance. | ||
| You remind American democracy of the ideals for which it was founded and you remind us that society is weakened whenever and wherever any injustice prevails. | ||
| A few moments ago, I spoke of the tendency towards globalization. | ||
| Globalization is not bad. | ||
| Globalization in and of itself is not bad. | ||
| On the contrary, the globalizing tendency is good. | ||
| It brings us together. | ||
| But what may be bad is the way this happens. | ||
| If Globalization would seek to make everyone the same as if it were a single sphere that globalization destroys the richness and the particularity, the individuality of every person and every people. | ||
| If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so, respecting each person, each individual person's richness and peculiarity, respecting all peoples and their own distinctives that globalization is good and makes us all grow and leads to peace. | ||
| Me gusta usar un poco la geometría. | ||
| I like to use geometry here. | ||
| If globalization is a sphere where each point is equidistant from the center, then it isn't good because it annuls each of us. | ||
| But if globalization joins us as a polyhedron where we are all together, each conserves his or her own identity, men, it's good and it gives dignity to all men and grants them rights. | ||
| There are among us today members of America's large Hispanic population, as well as representatives of recent immigrants to the United States. | ||
| Gracias por abrir la puerta. | ||
| Thank you for opening this door. | ||
| Many of you have emigrated and I greet you with particular affection. | ||
| Many of you have emigrated to this country at great personal cost, but in the hope of building a new life. | ||
| Do not be discouraged by whatever challenges and hardships you face. | ||
| I ask you not to forget, like those who came here before you, you bring many gifts to this nation. | ||
| Please, don't ever be ashamed of your traditions. | ||
| Do not forget the lessons you learned from your elders, which are something that may enrich the life of this American land. | ||
| I repeat, do not be ashamed of that which is a part of your lifeblood. | ||
| You are also called to be responsible citizens. | ||
| Are called to be responsible citizens and to contribute as those who came before did so to contribute fruitfully to the life of the communities in which you live. | ||
| I think in particular of the vibrant faith which so many of you possess of the deep sense of family life and all those other values which you have inherited. | ||
| By contributing your gifts, you will not only find your place here, you will help also to renew society from within. | ||
| Do not forget what happened here, more than two centuries ago. | ||
| Do not forget that declaration that proclaimed that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator of certain inalienable rights and that governments exist to protect and defend these rights. | ||
| Dear friends, I thank you for your warm welcome and for joining me here today. | ||
| Let us keep and care for freedom, the freedom of conscience, religious liberty, each individual, each family, each individual. | ||
| each people's own liberty, which is what gives us our rights. | ||
| May this country and each of you be renewed in gratitude for the many blessings and freedoms that you enjoy. | ||
| And may you defend these rights, especially religious freedom given to you by God. | ||
| May God bless you all and I ask you, please pray for me a little bit too. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| My brothers and sisters in Christ, now let us offer together the prayer. | ||
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Our Lord Jesus Christ for us. | |
| Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by name, give us our daily prayer and forgive us To trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. | ||
| The Lord be with you and with your spirit. | ||
| May Almighty God bless you all. | ||
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Coming up this morning, author and filmmaker Chris Whipple will talk about his book, Uncharted, How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History. | |
| And then Bill Dougherty, co-founder of the nonprofit group Braver Angels, talks about efforts to reduce political polarization in America. | ||
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| Democracy is always an unfinished creation. | ||
| Democracy is worth dying for. | ||
| Democracy belongs to us all. | ||
| We are here in the sanctuary of democracy. | ||
| Great responsibilities fall once again to the great democracies. | ||
| American democracy is bigger than any one person. | ||
| Freedom and democracy must be constantly guarded and protected. | ||
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We are still at our core a democracy. | |
| This is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. |