Pope: In God "Rests the Sure Guarantee of Hope" "The human spirit remains free even in the harshest conditions," said Pope Benedict Sunday morning, visiting the Shrine of the Fosse Ardeatine for the …More
Pope: In God "Rests the Sure Guarantee of Hope"
"The human spirit remains free even in the harshest conditions," said Pope Benedict Sunday morning, visiting the Shrine of the Fosse Ardeatine for the 67th anniversary of a massacre that took there. In this place of death, "painful memorial of a most horrendous evil", the Pope recalled the dramatic events of March 24, 1944, when Nazi fury tore apart the lives of 335 people, in reprisal for the via Rasella ambush a day earlier, in which 33 Germans were killed." What took place here - said the Pope - is a most grave offense against God, because it is the deliberate violence of man by man. It is the most abhorrent effect of war, any war, while God is life, peace, communion. "In the footsteps of his predecessors, Benedict XVI invoked "Divine mercy, which alone can fill the void, the abyss t opened by men who, when driven by blind violence, deny their dignity as children of God and brotherhood with each other" " We must believe in the God of love and life - he concluded - and reject any false image of God, that betrays His holy name.
"The human spirit remains free even in the harshest conditions," said Pope Benedict Sunday morning, visiting the Shrine of the Fosse Ardeatine for the 67th anniversary of a massacre that took there. In this place of death, "painful memorial of a most horrendous evil", the Pope recalled the dramatic events of March 24, 1944, when Nazi fury tore apart the lives of 335 people, in reprisal for the via Rasella ambush a day earlier, in which 33 Germans were killed." What took place here - said the Pope - is a most grave offense against God, because it is the deliberate violence of man by man. It is the most abhorrent effect of war, any war, while God is life, peace, communion. "In the footsteps of his predecessors, Benedict XVI invoked "Divine mercy, which alone can fill the void, the abyss t opened by men who, when driven by blind violence, deny their dignity as children of God and brotherhood with each other" " We must believe in the God of love and life - he concluded - and reject any false image of God, that betrays His holy name.