This version of The Weekly Benedict covers material released in the last week from 22 June – 9 July 2012 (subscribe here; get as an eBook version for your Kindle, iPod, iPad, Nook, or other eBook reader):
Angelus
Letters
Speeches
- 22 June 2012 – To a group of Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia on their ad Limina Apostolorum visit
- 9 July 2012 – Visit to the “Ad Gentes” House of the Verbite Missionaries in Nemi, Italy
From the address to the Colombian Bishops:
“Contemplation of the suffering face of Christ must also be an incentive to redouble the funds and programmes for lovingly accompanying and assisting all who are tried, and in particular those who are the victims of natural disasters, the poorest people, farmers, the sick and the afflicted, developing projects of solidarity and works of charity and mercy for them.
Nor should you forget all the people who are obliged to emigrate from their homeland because they have lost their job or are making great efforts to find one; all those whose fundamental rights are trampled upon or who are forced to leave their home and abandon their family under the threat of the dark hand of terror and organized crime; or those who have fallen into the inauspicious net of trafficking in drugs or weapons.”