Pope: "No More Rejection and Contempt for Gypsies" The Church walks with you" and "is a home for you all". The Pope said this this morning while receiving in Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, two thousand …More
Pope: "No More Rejection and Contempt for Gypsies"
The Church walks with you" and "is a home for you all". The Pope said this this morning while receiving in Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, two thousand European gypsies who are making a pilgrimage to Rome on the 75th anniversary of the martyrdom of blessed Zefirino Gimenez Malla, a gypsy killed during the Spanish Civil War for defending a priest. It is the first time that a Pontiff has received a group of gypsies in the Vatican, but for a long time these faithful have been at the heart of the Church, as Paul VI said in 1965, celebrating mass in a field of Romanians in Pomezia, and as Benedict XVI repeated today. After listening to some testimonies, the Pope recalled the thousands of gypsies killed in th ...
The Church walks with you" and "is a home for you all". The Pope said this this morning while receiving in Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, two thousand European gypsies who are making a pilgrimage to Rome on the 75th anniversary of the martyrdom of blessed Zefirino Gimenez Malla, a gypsy killed during the Spanish Civil War for defending a priest. It is the first time that a Pontiff has received a group of gypsies in the Vatican, but for a long time these faithful have been at the heart of the Church, as Paul VI said in 1965, celebrating mass in a field of Romanians in Pomezia, and as Benedict XVI repeated today. After listening to some testimonies, the Pope recalled the thousands of gypsies killed in th ...