WATCH FRANCIS: “Faith Without Mercy Becomes Ideology”

Aleteia - published on 04/02/16

Remark made during Vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday, in Rome

During the Vigil of Divine Mercy in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis spoke words whose truth reaches all the way back to a great Father of the Church, Gregory of Nyssa, who, in his Life of Moses, wrote: “ideas create idols; only wonder leads to knowing…”

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