Pope Francis, Cardinal Kasper, and the Eucharist as medicine

Pope Francis, Cardinal Kasper, and the Eucharist as medicine

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Robert McClory  |  Oct. 3, 2014

Pope Francis has indicated he wants the bishops to set forth on a new mission: overturning the old expectation that church news would always be bad. His first proclamation, he explained, is that "Christ has saved you," and an attitude of mercy must follow from that revelation. "Only someone who has encountered mercy, who has been caressed by the tenderness of mercy, is happy and comfortable with the Lord," he has said. If the church is a "field hospital," Francis explained, it must bring mercy and healing to its patients.