During his General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis continued his catechesis on the book of the Acts of the Apostles. <\/p>\n
He took this opportunity to reflect on problems that early Christian communities faced.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The pope explained that not only were there whispers from within the Church, but reproaches against Christian communities outside the Church as well.<\/p>\n He gave an example of St. Stephen: his enemies could not attack him, so they spread rumors about him instead.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Pope Francis also said that today, the Church is full of martyrs; men and women who give their lives for their faith.<\/p>\n Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi September 25, 2019. \u201cWe know that slander always kills,\u201d he recalled at the General Audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Yf-UoUkis-M","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza2509eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza2509int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47612"}],"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=47612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cProblems have existed from the beginning: how to solve problems when living in a community, without creating differences or problems.\u201d
\n\u201cIn the face of trouble, tares appear. What is the worst weed for a community? Gossip.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cSlander or false testimony. We know that slander always kills. This 'diabolical cancer,' arises from the will to attack someone's reputation also destroys the rest of the ecclesial body.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTranslated: Rachel Dobrzynski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"