Pope Francis told Slovakia’s Catholics that the Church should respond to secularization with the creativity of the Gospel, not a defensive Catholicism.
Speaking to clergy and lay people in St. Martin’s Cathedral in the capital, Bratislava, the pope encouraged Catholics to draw inspiration from Saints, Cyril and Methodius, who translated the Bible into the Slavonic language easing it for that community.
Pope Francis said the world is faced with the loss of the sense of God and of the joy of faith, it is useless to complain, to hide behind a defensive Catholicism, to judge and blame the bad world but rather there is need for creativity in spreading the Gospel to make it relevant to the present world.
The Holy Sea who asked the Church to strive to be humble, like Jesus offered three words to help guide Catholics namely: freedom, creativity, and dialogue. END
