Repentant sinners are best Christian witnesses, Pope tells troubled youths


	Repentant sinners are best Christian witnesses, Pope tells troubled youths

Efrain Alvarado

7-20-2008 7:54 PM

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god, repentance, youth, witness, idolotry

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Meeting on July 18 with a group of young people recovering from drug addiction and other problems, Pope Benedict XVI (<A href="http://www.cwnews.com/news/biosgloss/definition.cfm?bioID=12">bio</A> - <A href="http://www.cwnews.com/search/processor.cfm?searchfrombio=12">news</A>) told them that they could be "ambassadors of hope to others."    </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=59741"><FONT>The Pope saluted the young people for having shown "courage in choosing to turn back onto the path of life."     </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=59741"><FONT>The Holy Father began his speech by citing the words of Moses to the people of Israel: "I set before you life or death, blessing or curse." In response, he observed, the Hebrews "had to turn away from other gods and worship the true God."    </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=59741">The same choice constantly faces all men, the Pope said. Ordinarily, he explained, the "false gods" toward which we are tempted involve "the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive love, or power." When these pursuits become disordered forms of idolatry emerge</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=59741"> "Instead of bringing life, they bring death."    </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=59741">"By contrast, worship of the one true God means recognizing in Him the source of all goodness,"</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/15F05761-80C6-475A-B82B-CB348BFF16CE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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