"What kind of church do you dream of?â?â?¨ This was the question to which Pope Francis was responding when he famously likened the churchâ??at least the church he would like to seeâ??to a field hospital.
â??I see clearly,â? Francis said, â??that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars! You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else. Heal the wounds, heal the wounds. And you have to start from the ground up.â?
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