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2029 will mark the 200th anniversary of Catholic Emancipation
For over a hundred years prior, Catholics could not vote, could not practise their faith openly, could not own land, could not run schools and were legally obliged fo attend Protestant services
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"We cannot believe in Jesus and kill the innocent"
Speaking beneath the soaring towers of Gaudí's Sagrada Família, Pope Leo XIV reminded the world that Christian faith can never be separated from the dignity of every human person.
"We cannot believe in Jesus and promote war. We cannot believe in Jesus and kill the innocent. We cannot believe in Jesus and abandon those who suffer, those who weep, those who flee from misery."
Preaching in Barcelona, the Pope reflected on the cross crowning the basilica, calling it "the cross of the last who become first, of sinners who become saints, of the dead who will rise again."
The highest tower of the Sagrada Família, which he will bless today, may point toward heaven, but today Pope Leo's message pointed us toward our neighbor: the suffering, the displaced, the forgotten, and the vulnerable.
Faith, he reminded us, is not an idea carved in stone. It is a life transformed by the love of Christ.