Pope’s General Audience of 17
October 2018 - English summary
Here is the official English language summary of the Pope's
catechesis at the General Audience on 17 October 2018.
Dear brothers and sisters: In our continuing catechesis on
the Ten Commandments, we turn now to the fifth: “You shall not kill”, which
reveals how precious human life is in God’s eyes; we are made in his image out
of his infinitive love for us. But we learn that there are other ways of
“killing” a person: anger, insult, scorn and indifference towards others can
kill, perhaps not their physical bodies, but rather the unseen spirit within
them. Although the opposite of killing might seem to be not
killing, that is only a first step towards loving. We need to do the
opposite of what Cain did to Abel: we are each other’s
keepers, protectors and guardians. For this we need Christ’s love and
mercy. The commandment not to kill is a call to love and
to mercy, a call to live according to the life of the Lord Jesus, who gave us
life by rising to life; this life is the Father’s gift to each of us.
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