In teaching us charity, the Gospel instructs us in the preferential respect due to the poor and the special situation they have in society: the more fortunate should renounce some of their rights so as to place their goods more generously at the service of others. Pope Paul VI, Octogesima Adveniens (1971), n.23.
Detail of the window in Southwark Catholic Cathedral that commemorates Pope John Paul II’s visit in 1982 during which he celebrated the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. Picture by Fr Lawrence Lew
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