{"id":72797,"date":"2025-04-24T17:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/?p=72797"},"modified":"2025-04-25T10:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T08:17:17","slug":"thank-you-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdipime.org\/en\/missionary-life\/thank-you-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you Pope Francis!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The death of Pope Francis surprised us, saddened us, but immediately from the heart arose a deep feeling of gratitude for all that he did, said and above all witnessed in his choices, gestures and in his giving himself to all. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you Pope Francis for having gone out to meet the most distant, the forgotten, the peripheries of the world and for having urged us too to be an outgoing Church. \u2018The very nature of the Church is missionary\u2019 you told us, if it were not, it would no longer be the Church of Christ. Not folded in on ourselves, not self-referential or self-preserving, but on the move towards all, especially the most distant and needy.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis in Bangladesh:<\/h4>\n\n\t\t