Re: Pope Leo XIV
Rich Raho
Powerful moment in Lampedusa today as the Pope Leo climbs to the highest rock overlooking the Mediterranean where thousands of migrants drowned while seeking a better life.
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Rich Raho
Pope Leo in Lampedusa: "Today I am here to tell you that the Pope continues to walk with you, to support you, and to encourage you. We have gathered here to draw from Christ the love that only He can give us, so that the world of today and tomorrow may be more human—more human for everyone."
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“The sea has claimed the lives of others — those who did not manage to reach their hoped-for destination. Yet we feel their presence, which challenges us no less than that of those who have landed in need of attention and aid. Indeed, before any intellectual consideration or ideological conviction, the encounter with those who lie before us, stripped of everything, calls us to be close to them.”
“It is time to recognize and affirm that religious affiliation must never become a reason for discrimination, as if faith had boundaries rather than being a universal call to salvation. Where there were walls of separation, Christ broke them down. There is no love of God without love of neighbor, and there is no neighbor if I do not draw near.”
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Pope Leo in Lampedusa: “Indifference to the common good and corruption in migrants countries of origin; a global economic system that generates poverty and exclusion; fear that fuels prejudice and contempt; the belief that such problems do not concern us — all are present-day echoes of the haste to ‘pass by.’”
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