Michael Wallace Banach was a guest of Hungarian Catholic Radio, where the apostolic nuncio spoke about the situation in Ukraine and the zeal of African believers, as well as the persecution of Christians. The conversation will be heard on December 28, but the radio broadcasted short details as a preview.
In connection with the British elections a few months ago, Michael Wallace Banach recalled, during the introduction of the new prime minister, he was very saddened when it was announced on TV that a non-Christian person was the manifestation of development.
It is as if Christianity is only an obstacle, a barrier to development. If I look at the history of Europe, or even the history of the world, I see that Christianity, the Church, with its mission drive, has always been the carrier of development!
- emphasized the apostolic nuncio. He cited the German poet Wolfgang Goethe as an example, who did not care much about the Catholic Church, but declared,
that Europe was formed on the way to Santiago de Compostela, and its mother tongue is Christianity.
So if a writer like Goethe can say this, then this is a call to us, the generation of today's world, to take history as it is and not try to reinterpret it. So it is true that the history of Europe and the Church, Christianity, go hand in hand. This cannot be denied, even if many people want to
said the Archbishop. According to Michael Wallace Banach, perhaps it is time
when we return to the apostolic times, the era of the first Christians, the church that was just being born.
According to him, it is conceivable that we have to accept that Christianity will be in the minority, and we can read about these experiences in the Acts of the Apostles. The apostolic nuncio then emphasized that even in the reading, the non-Christian population noticed something special in the Christians, something different. Because every day they saw how they live their faith, how they bear witness to the resurrection of Jesus. And they were shocked at how different the Christian community was. Speaking about Pope Francis, the archbishop said that currently the Holy Father's biggest concern is peace.
Pope Francis always says that the Church cannot sit at home. The Church must go out into the streets, into society, to proclaim the good news. But if we want this to succeed, we must also proclaim the good news to ourselves - this is the synodal way. So this is a kind of self-observation and not "democracy in the Church" or anything like that. Self-examination. To look with honor at what the Church has done or not done. To fix ourselves so that we can share the good news with the world today. pointed out Michael Wallace Banach.
Source: vasarnap.hu
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