Vatican City, May 30, 2020 / 14:15 pm
Our suffering during the coronavirus crisis will have been in vain if we fail to build "a more just, more equitable, more Christian society," Pope Francis said May 30.
In a video message released Saturday, on the eve of Pentecost, the pope urged Catholics to seize the opportunity for change presented by the pandemic.
He said: "When we come out of this pandemic, we will no longer be able to do what we have been doing, and how we have been doing it. No, everything will be different."
"All the suffering will have been useless if we do not build together a more just, more equitable, more Christian society, not in name, but in reality, a reality that leads us to a Christian behavior."