Pope Francis: In politics, Catholics cannot live a ‘private faith’
(CNA. Hannah Brockhaus).
Pope Francis on Sunday urged Catholics to share their faith in the public square and to combat political polarization by supporting person-centered democracy. “Let us not be fooled by easy solutions. Let us instead get passionate about the common good,” he said at a Catholic conference on democracy in the northern Italian city of Trieste on July 7. Francis participated in the last morning of the 50th Social Week of Catholics, an annual meeting of the Catholic Church in Italy aimed at promoting the social doctrine of the Church. The theme of the July 3–7 congress was “At the Heart of Democracy: Participate between History and the Future.”