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The Papal Nuncio then noted that it is not coincidence that the Holy did not establish full diplomatic relations with South Africa until 1994, the year that the evil of apartheid was finally abolished. “As the hands of the Holy Father, it is the Nuncio’s role to take hands of those who need his assistance and walk with them, offering encouragement and support,”
There is a growing practice ok kidnapping and demanding ransom and, add to that, the assassination of those trying to fight corruption. We are becoming a country that is gradually being ruled by Mafias, and the government appears to be powerless.”
“May we completely outgrow the approach of seeing the Church as some kind of spiritual supermarket where we shop for spiritual good, but for which we assume no responsibility, and of which we have no sense of ownership. May we cease to view the Church as some sort of a spiritual bus in which we are passively carried from one destination to another. A spiritual bus in which you are carried from earth to heaven,”