vatican: Pope Francis: elderly are always protagonists in the Church

Publicado el 24/11/2013

Respect for the dignity of the person, especially the sick and the elderly, was the topic addressed by Pope Francis in his address to the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care on Saturday, at the end of a conference on this issue. Pope Francis reiterated the need for assistance, which, alongside traditional biomedical models, is enriched by spaces of dignity and freedom, far from the closures and silences, that too often surround people in the field of care. In this perspective he emphasized the importance of life's religious and spiritual dimension, and spoke of the need to implement a particular pastoral approach to accompany the religious life of older people with serious degenerative disease ...