Catholic Church in Central and Eastern Europe - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 19 Sep 2021 08:45:17 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Catholic Church in Central and Eastern Europe - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope Francis invokes Abraham Lincoln in message to safeguarding summit https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/09/20/pope-francis-invokes-abraham-lincoln-in-message-to-safeguarding-summit/ Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:50:12 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=140586 Pope Francis invoked Abraham Lincoln in a video message released on Saturday to a safeguarding summit organized by the Catholic Church in Central and Eastern Europe. Addressing participants in the meeting in Warsaw, Poland, the pope referred to Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, delivered 41 days before the president's assassination in 1865. "‘With malice toward none, Read more

Pope Francis invokes Abraham Lincoln in message to safeguarding summit... Read more]]> Pope Francis invoked Abraham Lincoln in a video message released on Saturday to a safeguarding summit organized by the Catholic Church in Central and Eastern Europe.

Addressing participants in the meeting in Warsaw, Poland, the pope referred to Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, delivered 41 days before the president's assassination in 1865.

"‘With malice toward none, with charity for all,' I urge you to be humble instruments of the Lord, at the service of the victims of abuse, considering them as companions and protagonists of a common future, learning from each other to become more faithful and resilient so that, together, we might face the challenges of the future," the pope said in a video message issued on Sept 18.

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