The most effective reporters highlight the impact on the life and concerns of a viewer. Pope Francis seems to instinctively do the same.
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The most effective reporters highlight the impact on the life and concerns of a viewer. Pope Francis seems to instinctively do the same.
Here I reflect on a “prequel” to the very first council, the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15). I will also fast-forward to the two-year-long “sequel” taking place right now.
St. Vincent wrote: “what a beautiful sight are the poor if we consider them in God…”
The most effective reporters highlight the impact on the life and concerns of a viewer. Pope Francis seems to instinctively do the same.
Here I reflect on a “prequel” to the very first council, the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15). I will also fast-forward to the two-year-long “sequel” taking place right now.
“…the Kingdom of God is near and that Kingdom is for [the poor].”
In recent years I have reflected on that wonderful phrase of Pope Francis – “the saints next door.”
That day, as Jesus sat in the temple precincts, what impressed him? What caught his eye?
Vincent would try to lift the poor out of their corporal and spiritual poverty and to make the rich put themselves at the service of the poor.
A big storm approaches. The weatherman urges everyone to get to higher ground. In his rectory, a priest says, “I won’t worry, God will save me.”