By Elise Harris Vatican City, Jun 15, 2016 / 04:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said Wednesday that we must listen to the cries of the poor and needy, resisting the temptation to close our hearts because we are “bothered” by their constant pleas for help. Reflecting on the miracle in Chapter 18 of Luke’s Gospel in which Jesus heals a blind man who cries out to him on the side of the road, Francis noted how the man had “a strong voice,” but the people around “rebuke him to keep quiet, as......
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God is only able to exercise mercy towards us when we open our hearts and exercise mercy towards others, most especially the poor, Pope Francis warned in his general audience Wednesday. Reflecting on the Gospel parable of the suffering a rich man endures after death for not helping a poor man who had lived outside the door of his home, begging for food, the pontiff said: “God’s mercy toward us is tied to our mercy towards our neighbors.” “If I do not throw open the door of my heart to the poor, that......
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