22 October 2018 | Address of His Holiness

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO PARTICIPANTS AT THE GENERAL CHAPTER OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE PASSION OF JESUS CHRIST (PASSIONISTS)

Consistory Hall

[…] The Church today strongly perceives the call to come out of herself and go to
the peripheries, both geographic and existential. Your commitment to embrace new
frontiers of mission implies not only going to new territories to bring the Gospel, but
also addressing the new challenges of our time, such as migrations, secularism and
the digital world. This means being present in those situations where people perceive
the absence of God, and trying to be close to those who, in any way or form, are
suffering.[…]