?The Pope calls Mexican bishops to face the challenges of migration and drug trafficking – With prophetic courage
“Only a Church able to shelter the faces of
men and women who knock on her doors will be able to speak to them of God….
We do not need ‘princes’, but rather a community of the Lord’s witnesses.” Pope
Francis addressed a long and passionate speech to the bishops of Mexico on
Saturday morning, 13 February, in the Cathedral of the Assumption in Mexico
City. It was an address in which the Pontiff touched on the serious challenges
which the country is facing, including migration and crime. Expressing his
trust in the ability of the country and of the Church to walk on the path of
peace and justice, the Pope said that he “is sure that Mexico and its Church”,
he said, “will make it in time to that rendezvous with themselves, with history
and with God”.