Pope Francis embraces Bartholomew, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, on arriving in Assisi for the World Day of Prayer for Peace, Sept. 20, 2016. Credit: L’Osservatore Romano.
“In efforts for peace, indifference is the greatest sickness of our time, Pope Francis said at an interreligious summit in Assisi on Tuesday.
“It is a virus that paralyzes, rendering us lethargic and insensitive, a disease that eats away at the very heart of religious fervor, giving rise to a new and deeply sad paganism: the paganism of indifference.”
“We cannot remain indifferent,” he said. “Today the world has a profound thirst for peace.”
The Pope spoke Sept. 20 during an international interreligious gathering marking the 30th anniversary of the World Day of Prayer for Peace convoked by St. John Paul II in 1986.”
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