Every Time We Judge Our Brother In

The Pope Doesn't Get Mixed Up In Italian Politics.

It Is Difficult To Judge The Past By The Criteria Of The Present.

A God Who Draws Near Out Of Love, The Holy Father Continued, Walks With His People, And This Walk Comes To An Unimaginable Point. We Could Never Have Imagined That The Same Lord Would Become One Of Us And Walk With Us, Be Present With Us, Present In His Church, Present In The Eucharist, Present In His Word, Present In The Poor, He Is Present, Walking With Us. And This Is Closeness: The Shepherd Close To His Flock, Close To His Sheep, Whom He Knows, One By One.

We Need To 'go Out,' Then, In Order To Experience Our Own Anointing, Its Power And Its Redemptive Efficacy: To The 'outskirts' Where There Is Suffering, Bloodshed, Blindness That Longs For Sight, And Prisoners In Thrall To Many Evil Masters.

The Cry Of A Baby Is God's Voice: Never Drive Them Away From The Church!