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Each day until the next pope is elected, La Croix speaks with a Church figure from around the world about the major challenges awaiting the future pope. Today: Father François Odinet, national chaplain of Caritas France and theologian, who served as an expert at the Synod in Rome....
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Planet Earth – God created it. It’s good. And it’s the only home we have. Let’s treat it with the respect it deserves for our good, the good of the poor and the good of generations to come!...
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While that may be granted, what may not be granted is that our (seemingly) necessary social and political pragmatism in dealing with “the widow, the orphan, and the immigrant” may cloak itself with Jesus and the Bible. It may not. This is antithetical to Jesus. Whether or not this...
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Like Christ who consoled the poor, afflicted and oppressed, the pope said, Jesus' modern-day disciples must hear "the plea of suffering humanity and, indeed, the groaning of every creature that awaits definitive redemption."...
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Lunch with some of the poor people of Rome has become tradition for Pope Francis as he, along with the global Church, celebrate World Day of the Poor....
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More often than not, the abundance of God is made possible through the generosity of the poor rather than the narrow channel of the rich and the privileged. We can see the proof of this through the Gospel story today....
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In his message for the second World Day of the Poor, Pope Francis has called for a new evangelisation that prompts Catholics “to make tangible the Church’s response to the cry of the poor”. In a letter to clergy throughout Australia, Bishops Commission for Pastoral Life chairman Bishop Terence...