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TOV March 2014 - Ten Things to Know About Pope Francis
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Ten Things to Know about Pope Francis
Theology on the Vine - March 6, 2014
with Msgr. James Anderson S.T.D.
Millions follow the Pope on social media. He was TIME’s Person of the Year in 2013. He has people around the world talking, listening and changing.
But what is the Pope's vision for the Church, his fundamental Gospel values and his message of simplicity.
Ten Things to know about Pope Francis
with
Msgr. James Anderson, S.T.D.
Assistant Professor, Systematic Theology
University of St. Thomas School of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary
- Who is Jorge Mario Bergolgio?
- How come God never gets tired of forgiving us?
- How have you been able in your life to attain the certainty of faith; and what route do you suggest we take to enable each one of us to overcome the fragility of our faith?
- I think all of us are keenly aware of the challenges of evangelization that is at the heart of our experience. This is why I want to ask you to help me and help all of us to understand how to live the challenge at the present time? ... How can we communicate faith effectively today?
- How can we live as a poor Church and for the poor? How does a suffering person pose a question for our faith?
- What is the worst evil to befall the Church?
- What practical, effective contribution can all of us make to the Church and to society in order to address the grave crisis that is affecting public ethics, that is to say, a new way of being human?
- I would like to do more, but what? How can I help the poor, how can I alleviate their suffering since I can do nothing or only very little to change their political and social context?
- Priests are to be shepherds with the smell of their sheep, I say to you: be everywhere heralds of the word of life. We must tell each other the truth: the work of evangelizing, of freely carrying grace ahead, is not easy, because we are not alone with Jesus Christ; there is also an adversary, an enemy who wants to keep men separate from God. Scandals "shame the Church" and arose where there is no "bond with God."
- The faith must be proposed, never imposed and in its basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead.