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True charity gives people God, not bread alone, cardinal says
By Elise Harris
Vatican City, Nov 13, 2014 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Robert Sarah has stressed the link between charity and preaching the Gospel, saying that while the practical needs of the poor are important, Christians can give something more essential: Jesus Christ.
Cardinal Sarah, citing Benedict XVI, told CNA that “charity is very linked with the proclamation of the Gospel, and doing charity is not only giving food, giving material things, but giving God too. Because the main lack of man is not having God.”
The cardinal heads the Holy See’s Pontifical Council Cor Unum, which oversees Catholic charitable organizations and humanitarian relief agencies. He offered his comments during the leadership forum for the new confederation Caritas In Veritate International, held Nov. 4-9 in Rome.
The confederation is inspired by Benedict’s encyclicals “Deus Caritas Est” and “Caritas in Veritate.” The organization is made up of several Catholic communities, international groups and charitable institutions which are involved in missions in 80 countries throughout the world.
Cardinal Sarah addressed the conference about “Caritas in Veritate.” The cardinal explained that the worst discrimination against the poor is not refusing to give them food, but rather to give them only food and refuse to give them the Gospel.
“It’s very important to express that the hunger we are suffering today is not having God in our life, in our society,” the cardinal said Nov. 7. He explained that Benedict XVI’s encyclical insists that charity is the way we express our faith. Although giving food is necessary, “the main food is God.”
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True charity gives people God, not bread alone, cardinal says
By Elise Harris
Vatican City, Nov 13, 2014 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Robert Sarah has stressed the link between charity and preaching the Gospel, saying that while the practical needs of the poor are important, Christians can give something more essential: Jesus Christ.
Cardinal Sarah, citing Benedict XVI, told CNA that “charity is very linked with the proclamation of the Gospel, and doing charity is not only giving food, giving material things, but giving God too. Because the main lack of man is not having God.”
The cardinal heads the Holy See’s Pontifical Council Cor Unum, which oversees Catholic charitable organizations and humanitarian relief agencies. He offered his comments during the leadership forum for the new confederation Caritas In Veritate International, held Nov. 4-9 in Rome.
The confederation is inspired by Benedict’s encyclicals “Deus Caritas Est” and “Caritas in Veritate.” The organization is made up of several Catholic communities, international groups and charitable institutions which are involved in missions in 80 countries throughout the world.
Cardinal Sarah addressed the conference about “Caritas in Veritate.” The cardinal explained that the worst discrimination against the poor is not refusing to give them food, but rather to give them only food and refuse to give them the Gospel.
“It’s very important to express that the hunger we are suffering today is not having God in our life, in our society,” the cardinal said Nov. 7. He explained that Benedict XVI’s encyclical insists that charity is the way we express our faith. Although giving food is necessary, “the main food is God.”
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