00:00Music
00:30Here at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran, which is the seat of the Roman Pontiff in Rome.
00:53All bishops must have a cathedral, and the Bishop of Rome has this cathedral.
01:00This is the place from which he would normally preach.
01:04Over time, after the Pope had lived in this place for a long time,
01:10He was transferred to the Vatican apartments in Vatican City next to St. Peter's Basilica.
01:17From his pulpit, he instructs us, catechizes us, and helps us to live our faith deeply.
01:26Let us remember that Jesus, mainly in the Gospel of Matthew, although in all the synoptic Gospels,
01:33It is clear that Peter is in charge of catechizing his brothers.
01:39He says very specifically to Peter after dinner, "When you have come out of this trial, strengthen your brothers."
01:48The church has always understood this role of Peter as being in charge of leading the church to safe harbor.
01:57In the Gospel, he gives him the keys to the kingdom and with that he says,
02:01Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
02:08The church was discovering this from the very first moments of its constitution,
02:14what the text of the book of Acts of the Apostles tells us.
02:19We can already see how people had great veneration, great respect for Peter.
02:24Saint Paul is certainly one of the pillars of the church and preached to the pagans,
02:30But Saint Peter took it upon himself to give it solidity and to constitute what is the church.
02:35He is the firm rock upon which our entire church is built.
02:41However, it is sad to see how people despise the teachings of the Holy Father today.
02:48I would like a church, in accordance with today's world, that is freer, in which homosexuals are allowed to do with sex what they want.
02:58the power to even form families that do not correspond to God's idea of family.
03:03They would like birth control to be left entirely to the discretion of man.
03:11They would like us to be able to violate the principles of Scripture,
03:16like the one where Jesus says that he divorces his wife and marries another, for he commits adultery.
03:22In short, many issues that are currently being discussed within society
03:27And that they would like, even many Catholics, for all this to be reformed and for the Pope to make more flexible everything that the Lord has taught us.
03:38He cannot do this because He is the guarantor; He is precisely the guarantee of what God has taught us through Jesus Christ.
03:45will remain through time.
03:48The Pope continually publishes encyclicals, pastoral letters, and a series of informational and educational materials.
04:18for all of us that it is necessary that we also know.
04:23Holy Scripture alone is not enough.
04:26Let us remember that the complete revelation is in Sacred Scripture, which is the foundation, the source.
04:33But we also have it in the tradition that we receive mainly through what we call the Holy Fathers,
04:41The people who lived in the early days of the Constitution of the Church and the Magisterium, that is, the teaching of Peter.
04:49Peter, who continues to teach us from this cathedral.
04:53Peter, who from the seat of the Roman Pontiff continues to be the instrument of God's grace to lead and instruct the people.
05:01There are many things that Jesus certainly did not say because they were not applicable to the time in which he lived.
05:08For example, birth control, the issue of homosexuality, which already existed, but was not a problem.
05:15On the contrary, it was something that the Christian community itself rejected in St. Paul, as is very clear in his letters,
05:22saying that whoever lives their Christian life in this inappropriate way simply will not be able to enter the kingdom of heaven.
05:31In short, there are many things that Jesus did not explicitly preach at that time, but that is why he left a teaching.
05:40He left a teaching through Peter, who continues to instruct us on these topics today.
05:45So, he usually consults experts who instruct him, but ultimately the Pope's voice is the voice of Jesus Christ.
05:54Through him we continue to hear Jesus speaking, we hear Peter speaking.
06:01Some people say, well, but all these popes have had dissolute lives,
06:07especially referring to the medieval period.
06:10However, that is precisely where we see how what God establishes, what God does, remains.
06:17She says, the forces of hell will not prevail against her, and the grace of the Spirit will always be present.
06:25Despite all these problems and these moral situations of some of the popes,
06:32We can see that throughout these 20 centuries, none of them has made a single mistake in matters of doctrine.
06:40The same doctrine has always been maintained.
06:43Indeed, as humans they have led a life that does not correspond to the Christian life,
06:47But this is not what sustains the church.
06:51What truly sustains the church is faith in Jesus Christ.
06:56Jesus clearly stated in his time,
06:58Don't imitate them, but do what they tell you.
07:02And what Peter has always told us throughout the various pontificates,
07:06It has always been a precise, serious instruction, which is always in accordance with Sacred Scripture.
07:13Let us not allow this modernity that rejects the Pope, that rejects his teachings,
07:19I would like a church, let me put it this way, a modern one, because it has come to contaminate our Christian life.
07:26Jesus was very clear in leaving us a shepherd who instructs us, who guides us,
07:33And if we follow what Peter teaches through today's Holy Pontiff,
07:38in the person of Pope Francis,
07:40If we follow these instructions, we will surely attain eternal life without much difficulty.
07:48If, on the other hand, we follow the current of the world,
07:51If we separate ourselves from the teachings of Jesus Christ,
07:54we will end up lost,
07:56And finally, the world's criteria will form part of our thinking.
08:01The Pope, from this seat, continues to instruct us.
08:05Let's sing to him.
08:10The Pope, from this seat, continues to instruct us.
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