Tuesday, 16 February 2016

Pope Benedict XV on Christian charity

Christian charity ought not to be content with not hating our enemies and loving them as brothers; it also demands that we treat them with kindness, following the rule of the Divine Master Who "went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil", and finished His mortal life, the course of which was marked by good deeds, by shedding His blood for them...
Pacem, Dei munus pulcherrimum, 1920

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