An increasingly influential German cardinal spoke to a packed auditorium at Stanford University on Jan. 15 about the challenge of organizing a free and open society that is linked with the common good.
â??It is important for the church to be in the great questions of social justice,â? said Cardinal Reinhard Marx, head of the German bishopsâ?? conference and part of the nine-member Council of Cardinals that advises Pope Francis on church governance. Christianity must be more active in the political scene in the West, he said, and be part of the development that â??gives the poor a chance.â?
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