Pope Francis told people to be careful with their beliefs, as the Gospel is not an idea. .“The Gospel is a proclamation that touches your heart and makes you change your heart,” said Francis in a Wednesday video. .“But if you take refuge in an ideology, whether right or left or centre, you are making the Gospel a political party, an ideology, a club of people.” .The video starts off with Francis saying he hears people say they're a conservative or progressive for various reasons. He asked where is the Holy Spirit. .He said the Gospel gives people “this freedom of the Spirit that acts within and carries you forward.” .“And how much it requires of us today to take hold of the Gospel and allow ourselves to be carried forward by the Spirit,” he said. .This video comes after Francis spoke about religion to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit people in Maskwacis on his Canadian trip in July. .READ MORE: DEEPLY SORRY: Pope Francis issues in-person apology to indigenous residential school survivors.While in Maskwacis, he drove in a white Fiat on a newly paved road and first visited the former site of the Ermineskin Indian Residential School and a cemetery nearby where 15 dead children lay buried.."I am here as the first step to ask forgiveness, and I am deeply sorry," he said.
