Vatican City, 17 April 2015 (VIS) –
Today at midday Pope Francis received in audience, in the Sala
Clementina, 225 members, administrators and collaborators of the
“Papal Foundation” during their annual visit to Rome. The “Papal
Foundation” is a Catholic association established in 1990 in
Philadelphia, U.S.A. by the late Cardinal John Krol, which provides
funding for the needs of the Church throughout the world.
In his address to the institution, the
Pope emphasised the wide variety of projects supported by the
Foundation, which offer “witness to the ceaseless efforts of the
Church to promote the integral development of the human family,
conscious as she is of the immense and ongoing needs of so many of
our brothers and sisters”. The Papal Foundation “devotes a
sizeable percentage of its resources to the education and formation
of young priests, religious and lay men and women, hastening the day
when their local Churches may be self-supportive, and, indeed,pass on
the fruits of such generosity to others”.
Pope Francis thanked those present for
the hard work and sacrifice that this entails, and to assured them of
his heartfelt prayers for them, their loved ones, and all those whom
they support.
“As the Church prepares for the
coming Jubilee of Mercy, I ask our Lord Jesus Christ, 'the face of
the Father’s mercy', to refresh and renew each one of you through
his mercy, the greatest of his many gifts”, he concluded. “May
each of you experience the healing and freedom that come from the
encounter of forgiveness and gratuitous love offered in the
sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist”.
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