{"id":50809,"date":"2014-06-16T13:49:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/06\/16\/pope-praises-volunteers-for-their-work-words-don-t-solve-anything\/"},"modified":"2014-06-16T13:49:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T11:49:19","slug":"pope-praises-volunteers-for-their-work-words-don-t-solve-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/06\/16\/pope-praises-volunteers-for-their-work-words-don-t-solve-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope praises volunteers for their work: 'Words don't solve anything.'"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blue and yellow tide swept St. Peter's Square on Saturday morning, as 30,000 Italian volunteers from the so-called 'mercy groups\u00e2?\u009d gathered to meet with Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>They come from the oldest volunteer association in the world. It was founded in 1244 in Florence. Since then, they've helped the people in greatest need in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis warned them about the risk of becoming 'informed spectators\u00e2?\u009d to world poverty, who in the end, don't do anything for others.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'When I listen to some of the conversations between people that know the statistics: 'Such inhumanity, father. Such inhumanity!' But what are you doing to solve this inhumanity? Nothing, I speak! And this doesn't solve anything.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis asked volunteers not to limit themselves to giving 'verbal solutions\u00e2?\u009d \u00a0to 'real-life\u00e2?\u009d problems.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'We have heard so many words. But we need action, your action, a Christian witness, going to those who suffer, being close to them, just like Christ did.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>After his remarks, Pope Francis greeted several people with disabilities, who had attended the audience.<\/p>\n<p>With this gathering, the Italian 'mercy groups\u00e2?\u009d celebrated the anniversary of their audience with John Paul II, on June 14, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>PM\/RCA<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nVM<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp: MAE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 16, 2014.\u00a0He said they should not give \"verbal responses to real problems.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":29540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ANCm_SwhvSE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bmisericordiaitaliaint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50809"}],"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=50809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}