Pope Francis in a new encyclical stressed the social dimension of God's love, saying the ancient devotion to the heart of Jesus must translate into care of others. and is a remedy to "outdated" church structures and various forms of "fanaticism," the Crux website reports today (Oct. 24, 2024).
"In a world where everything is bought and sold, people's sense of their worth appears increasingly to depend on what they can accumulate with the power of money," the pope said in his newest encyclical, published today.
As a society, "We are constantly being pushed to keep buying, consuming, and distracting ourselves held captive to a demeaning system that prevents us from looking beyond our immediate and petty needs," he said.
Christ's love, he said, "has no place in this perverse mechanism. Christ's love can give a heart to our world and revive love wherever we think that the ability to love has been definitively lost."
Likewise, Francis said the church is also in need of this love, "lest the love of Christ be replaced with outdated structures and concerns, excessive attachments to our own ideas and opinions . and fanaticism in any number of forms. "
Francis said, "The acknowledgement of the human and divine aspects of Christ's love is a summons to a personal relationship of encounter and dialogue," which he said become more meaningful when Christ is contemplated in both His divinity and humanity.
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