罗马天主教教宗方济各星期一前往墨西哥最贫困的恰帕斯州访问，他将在这个居住着大量原住民的地区，通过三种原住民语言主持一场弥撒，然后访问西部米却肯州首府莫雷利亚。那里的农民2013年曾拿起武器，抗击“圣殿骑士”毒品走私集团。
星期天，教宗方济各在墨西哥城郊的埃卡特佩克为30万罗马天主教信徒举行了露天弥撒。他在讲道中批评了毒品交易及其相关暴力，这是他五天之行的中心议题。
他说：“让我们铭记在心：与魔鬼绝无对话可言。” 教宗教导信徒拒绝虚浮、骄傲和奢华。他敦促墨西哥人走在构建国家未来的“前沿”。
Pope Francis travels Monday to heavily indigenous Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state, where he will preside over a Mass conducted in three indigenous languages. He then visits Morelia, the capital of the western state of Michoacan where farmers in 2013 took up arms to battle the so-called Knights Templar drug cartel.
On Sunday, Francis held an open air Mass for some 300,000 Roman Catholic faithful in Mexico City’s suburb of Ecatepec. The pontiff spoke out against the drug trade and associated violence; a central theme of his five-day visit.
“Let’s get that in our heads, with the devil there is no dialogue,” he said while urging the faithful to resist vanity, pride and wealth. Francis urged Mexicans to be on the “front lines” in forging their country’s future.