After the series of catecheses on discernment, Pope Francis announced his new series dedicated to the passion for evangelization.<\/p>\n
The Pope said that evangelizing is a vital element of the life of the Church and without it, the Church withers. He explained that it is a mistake to wait to be perfect before sharing the Gospel. Pope Francis said that, above all, what helps the Church to grow is love, more than any marketing plan.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS Pope Benedict gave this message at the inaugural Mass for the 5th General Conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Bishops in 2007.<\/p>\n Following the late Pope emeritus' words, Pope Francis dedicated his own reflection to this element of Christian life.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS At the end of the Audience, Pope Francis asked those present to spend a few moments praying for Ukraine before this image of the 'Virgin of the People' venerated in Belarus. <\/p>\n JRB<\/p>\n TR: KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the series of catecheses on discernment, the Pope announced his new series dedicated to the passion for evangelization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vqa-79-gPDY","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1101eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1101int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>In fact, as Pope Benedict taught us, 'the Church does not proselytize. Rather, it grows by attraction.' Don't forget this.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>When you see Christians proselytizing\u2014making a list of people\u2014these are not Christians. They are pagans disguised as Christians. But their heart is pagan.<\/em><\/p>\n