Vatican City (Vatican), 6 May (LaPresse) – The Church “is also entrusted with the mission of speaking out clearly to reject everything that undermines life and hinders its development, and to take a stand in favour of the poor, the exploited, the victims of violence and war, and all those who suffer, both in body and spirit”. So said Pope Leo XIV during Wednesday’s general audience in St Peter’s Square. Provost focused his catechesis on the dogmatic constitution ‘Lumen gentium’. “As a sign and sacrament of the Kingdom, the Church is the pilgrim People of God on earth who, precisely on the basis of the final promise, reads and interprets the dynamics of history through the Gospel, denouncing evil in all its forms and proclaiming, in word and deed, the salvation that Christ wishes to bring about for all humanity and his Kingdom of justice, love and peace. The Church, therefore, does not proclaim itself; on the contrary, in it everything must point to salvation in Christ,” added the Pope.
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