Lhe 2024 season of What’s the weather like will start with an interview that will be historic. In fact, Sunday 14 January he will be a guest on Fabio Fazio’s program (now on channel Nine) Pope francesco.
Pope Francis returns as a guest of Fabio Fazio
The announcement arrived on the social pages of the journalist and the plan. «With great emotion I have the pleasure to announce that next Sunday’s guest What’s the weather like will be His Holiness Pope Francis», wrote Fabio Fazio.
This will not be the first time that the presenter (who left Rai after almost forty years) will host in the TV lounge of What’s the weather like the Pontiff. Indeed, Pope Francis had connected with the program (at the time on Rai3) on February 6, 2022. On that occasion, a 25.41% share was recorded (with 6.7 million viewers connected) and a peak of 32.3% was reached (with 8.7 million viewers).
Pope Francis in connection with “Che Tempo Che Fa” by Fabio Fazio, on 6 February 2022. Credit: Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images
Bergoglio’s statements a What’s the weather like
The interview that Fabio Fazio conducted with the Holy Father in February 2022 had traveled around the world. Indeed, connected from his residence in Santa Marta, Pope Francis had spoken out on many topics. From the drama of migrants to the crisis between Russia and Ukraine. But also the pandemic and the sale of weapons.
«Those born in developed countries should thank and look at those who have not. We see all these things that happen around us, yet there is always the temptation to look the other way”, said Bergoglio. «The media shows us everything, we complain, but then it’s as if nothing had happened. It is not enough to see, it is necessary to feel, to touch. […] I always ask those who come to confession if when they give alms, they look into the eyes and touch the hands of those who receive it. We must touch people’s pain with our hands».
Pope Francis’ recent words against surrogacy and gender
Fabio Fazio’s interview with the Holy Father arrives a few hours ago some statements that have caused discussion. In his traditional speech to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See, in fact, the Pope spoke out on some major ethical issues such as surrogate motherhood and gender theory.
«Unfortunately, the attempts made in recent decades to introduce new rights, not fully consistent with those originally defined and not always acceptable, have given rise to ideological colonizationsamong which it has a central role gender theorywhich is very dangerous because it erases differences in the claim to make everyone equal», declared the Holy Father.
And on the surrogate motherhood: «It seriously damages the dignity of the woman and her child. It it is based on the exploitation of a situation of material need of the mother. A child is always a gift and never the object of a contract.”
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