Dominican Missionary Sisters of St Sixtus - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 15 Aug 2024 07:44:22 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Dominican Missionary Sisters of St Sixtus - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Life's 'final exam' will be on care for poor, pope says https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/08/15/lifes-final-exam-will-be-on-care-for-poor-pope-says/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 05:51:47 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=174559 God will not judge people by how many university degrees they earned, but by how well they cared for the poor, Pope Francis told a group of priests and religious women. "The Lord won't ask us, 'What did you study?' 'How many degrees do you have?' 'How many works did you accomplish?' No, no. The Read more

Life's ‘final exam' will be on care for poor, pope says... Read more]]> God will not judge people by how many university degrees they earned, but by how well they cared for the poor, Pope Francis told a group of priests and religious women.

"The Lord won't ask us, 'What did you study?' 'How many degrees do you have?' 'How many works did you accomplish?'

No, no. The Lord will say, 'Come with me because I was hungry and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me to drink; I was persecuted and you protected me,'" the pope said.

"That is the theme of the final exam on which we will be judged," the pope said on Aug 12.

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