Religious Quotes and News – April 28, 2024

Think of the children

During an audience with students and teachers from the National Network of Schools for Peace on April 19, Pope Francis said:

“Think of the children who are at war, think of the Ukrainian children who have forgotten how to laugh… Pray for these children, keep them in your heart… the children who are at war. Think of the children of Gaza, under fire, hungry…

“I wish you always remain captivated by the dream of peace! I say it with the motto of Don Lorenzo Milani, the Prior of Barbiana, who opposed ‘I don’t care’, typical of foolish indifference, with the ‘I care’, that is to say: ‘I take it to heart’, ‘I am interested’. May this be dear to all of you, may you always care about the fate of our planet and your fellow human beings; May you care about the future that opens up before us, so that it may truly be what God dreams for everyone: a future of peace and beauty for all humanity.”

Call to remove Rupnik mosaics

The Washington, D.C., Knights of Columbus council has asked the Knights’ executive branch to remove the mosaics created by disgraced artist Father Marko Rupnik from the shrine’s Redemptor Hominis Church and Luminous Mysteries Chapel.

Rupnik is accused of sexually assaulting religious sisters while creating his artwork in various churches and countries.

‘We are all irreplaceable’

In his Angelus address last Sunday, Pope Francis said the image of the Good Shepherd shows us how Jesus sees each of us as “important, irreplaceable, worth the infinite price of his life.” The Pope said: “Jesus really gave his life for me, he died and rose again for me, because he loves me and he finds in me a beauty that I often do not see.”

(Compiled by Father Joe Borg)