POPE TALK | KAIROS GLOBAL | MARCH 2024

Author: Dr Kochurani Joseph

• If you don’t know the date of your baptism, look it up and celebrate the anniversary of becoming a child of God and heir to the kingdom of heaven.

• Return to God’s word rather than social media’s violence of words. The word of God does not leave us self-absorbed but expands hearts, changes courses, overturns habits, opens up new scenarios, and discloses unthought-of horizons.

• Wrath is an inherently physical vice, as it is ‘pervasive’ and ‘particularly dark’, perhaps the easiest to detect from a physical point of view. 

• The devil wants to ‘chain our souls’ and enslave us with many temptations, while Jesus came to free us from all of these chains.

• Christian unity must be rooted in prayer,

• Gluttony is perhaps the most dangerous vice. Avarice is a sickness of the heart, not of the wallet, it reflects a greater compulsive hoarding and pathological accumulation.

• There is difference between love and lust; to love means to respect the other, to seek his or her happiness, to cultivate empathy for his or her feelings. 

• The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God.

• The Lord blesses everyone and that blessing is an invitation to enter into a conversation to see what the road is that the Lord proposes to them.

• Catholic news media can’t be ‘neutral’ in the message they convey. Interreligious dialogue, ecumenism, and the defence of peace, freedom, and human dignity should be the goals of communication professionals, especially if they are Catholic.

MARCH

For the new martyrs

We pray that those who risk their lives for the Gospel in various parts of the world inflame the Church with their courage and missionary enthusiasm.