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Pope says Europe is tired and the Church must help it regain its faith

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Vatican City, Sep 23 (EFE) .- (cAMERA: Álvaro Padilla) Pope Francis on Thursday regretted that Europe is tired and has lost its faith, and affirmed that the Catholic Church can help it to recover it and put aside its obsession with the immediate, which leads nowhere.FOOTAGE OF THE MASS OF THE PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN EPISCOPAL CONFERENCES CELEBRATED IN THE BASILICA OF SAINT PETER IN VATICAN CITY.SOUNDBITES FROM POPE FRANCIS, IN ITALIAN:TRANSLATION- Today still in Europe we Christians are tempted to stay comfortably in their homes and in their churches, given by tradition, while the surrounding temples are emptied and Jesus is always forgotten.- The construction of the European common house needs to leave the conveniences of the immediate to return to the breadth of vision of the founding fathers, to a prophetic and overall vision, because they were not looking for the agreements of the moment, but rather they dreamed of the future of all the walls of the European house were built and only in this way can they be consolidated.- Many in Europe think that faith is something already seen, that it belongs to the past. Why? Because they haven't seen Jesus work in their lives. And often they have not seen it because we, with our lives, have not shown it to them enough.- Let us help the Europe of today, sick with fatigue, to rediscover the ever-young face of Jesus and his wife. For this imperishable beauty to be seen, we can only give it our all and give ourselves totally.

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