The general audiences returned to the Paul VI Hall after two weeks of public events for Christmas and the Jubilee.
The Pope wanted this first catechesis of 2025 to be dedicated to children, specifically denouncing child labor.
POPE FRANCIS
Nowadays we want to turn our gaze towards Mars or towards virtual worlds, but we struggle to look in the eyes of a child who has been left at the margins and who is exploited or abused. The century that generates artificial intelligence and plans multiplanetary existences has not yet reckoned with the scourge of humiliated, exploited, mortally wounded childhood.
Pope Francis pointed out that today there are too many children who are forced to work; children exploited, the Pope said, by an economy that does not respect life.
At the end of the audience, this group of 60 people from the CircAfrica company offered this show…
At the end, everyone approached to greet and take a photo with Pope Francis.
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