Holy Father Pope Francis while addressing the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square shared a reflection on the reading from the Gospel of St. Matthew which says “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and render unto God what is God’s”. His Holiness conveyed the significance of both the legitimacy of earthly authority and the primacy of God in human affairs and over the entire universe.
As reported by Vatican Radio, Holy Father Pope Francis remarked that “The Christian is called to be concretely committed in human and social realities without putting God and Caesar in contraposition because that counterposing God and Caesar would be a fundamentalist attitude.” Further, His Holiness added, “The Christian is called upon to engage concretely in earthly realities but enlightening them with the light that comes from God.”
His Holiness concluded his message by reminding the faithful that entrusting oneself to God in the first and placing one’s hope in Him does not require us to escape from reality and exhorted them to work diligently to render unto Him, all that is His.
