In his message for Lent 2015, Pope Francis took aim at the globalization of indifference. Here are some highlights of his message: “As long as I am relatively healthy and comfortable, I don’t think about those less well off. Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we… Read More Pope Francis: Reject the Globalization of Indifference This Lent
Paris Saint-Germain striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic recently had the names of 50 people who are suffering from hunger temporarily tattooed on his body to call attention to the over 800 million who face hunger in the world today. He explains why he did it in this video:
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Pope Francis: “What is the most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: To learn how to love. Not just accumulating information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, that that information bear fruit.”
Pope Francis: “The flag of the poor is Christian. Poverty is at the center of the Gospel. The poor are at the center of the Gospel. Let’s take Matthew 25, the protocol on which we will be judged: I was hungry, I was thirsty, I was in prison, I was sick, naked.”
Pope Francis: “Children cry, they are noisy, they don’t stop moving. But it really irritates me when I see a child crying in church and someone says they must go out. God’s voice is in a child’s tears: they must never be kicked out of church.”
