Christians are called to contemplate Christ in “the voice of the suffering, the hidden cry of the little innocent ones to whom the light of this world is denied,” the Pope said at a September 20 prayer service in Assisi with other Christian leaders, including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.

Francis at Assisi: contemplate Christ in the suffering
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