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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic Church needs people and pastors capable of walking alongside refugees to respond to the reality of forced migration across the Americas, Pope Francis said.
Only by forming people “who dare to go beyond the limits of what is established” and are “capable of returning to the essential (and) breaking free from indifference” can the Church lead migrants toward hope, he wrote in a message March 20 to bishops from Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama.
The bishops were meeting for a three-day conference in Panama City, organized by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, titled “Easter with our Migrant Brothers and Sisters.”
Every migrant or refugee who leaves their home challenges Christians to wake from indifference and embrace a spirit of hospitality, the pope wrote, urging the bishops to work for a Church in which migrants “do not feel judged but welcomed, where they can quench their hunger and thirst and revive hope.”
He wrote that “by recognizing ourselves as strangers, with our own vulnerabilities and shortcomings, we can create the necessary conditions to welcome our neighbors as brothers and sisters, and thus make them participants in our daily lives.”
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Only by forming people “who dare to go beyond the limits of what is established” and are “capable of returning to the essential (and) breaking free from indifference” can the Church lead migrants toward hope, he wrote in a message March 20 to bishops from Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama.
The bishops were meeting for a three-day conference in Panama City, organized by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, titled “Easter with our Migrant Brothers and Sisters.”
Every migrant or refugee who leaves their home challenges Christians to wake from indifference and embrace a spirit of hospitality, the pope wrote, urging the bishops to work for a Church in which migrants “do not feel judged but welcomed, where they can quench their hunger and thirst and revive hope.”
He wrote that “by recognizing ourselves as strangers, with our own vulnerabilities and shortcomings, we can create the necessary conditions to welcome our neighbors as brothers and sisters, and thus make them participants in our daily lives.”
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Pope challenges the church in the Americas to welcome migrants
Only by forming people "who dare to go beyond the limits of what is established" and are "capable of returning to the essential (and) breaking free from indifference" can the church lead migrants toward hope, the pope wrote in a message March 20 to bishops from Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama.
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