Everyone can be a good Samaritan, pope says in message for World Day of the Sick

Pope Leo says everyone can be a good Samaritan

Diocesan News "To love one's neighbor — whom Jesus identifies as anyone who has need of us — is within everyone's reach," he wrote in his message for the 34th World Day of the Sick, observed by the church Feb. 11, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes."The pain that moves us to compassion is not the pain of a stranger; it is the pain of a member of our own body, to whom Christ, our head, commands us attend, for the good of all," the pope wrote in the…

Everyone can be a good Samaritan, pope says in message for World Day of the Sick

VATICAN (CNS): People of faith and goodwill need to take time to acknowledge the needs and suffering of those around them and be moved by love and compassion to offer others concrete help, Pope Leo XIV said. To love one’s neighbour—whom Jesus identifies as anyone who has need of us—is within everyone’s reach, he said…