Holy Father Pope Francis met with an enthusiastic group of young Romanian in the Vatican, in which the young men and women asked His Holiness Pope Francis questions about why children are abandoned and rejected. To some questions, His Holiness Pope Francis blamed poverty and injustice for the sad and abandoned situations which provokes the parents to leave their children as an option.
As reported by Vatican Radio, Responding to a question about why life is so unfair and another about a child who died in an orphanage, Holy Father Pope Francis remarked that “Sometimes there are no answers to questions about why children suffer. The only answers come from God, who wants to heal our pain. Just as Jesus told his disciples that neither the blind man nor his parents, were responsible for his affliction, so God answers by meeting us in our sickness and suffering, embracing us and healing our pain.”
His Holiness Pope Francis responded to a young woman who had put her baby into foster care, yet found herself judged for being a bad mother. He answered that sometimes fostering can be the best solution and he assured her that he understood her feelings of loneliness and confusion.
