Barcelona, Spain, Nov 7, 2010 / 09:56 am
Pope Benedict lauded the design of Barcelona's newly dedicated minor basilica in bringing the Gospel to everyone, especially the poor.
Just after Mass at the newly dedicated Minor Basilica of the Sagrada Familia (Holy Family) in Barcelona, Spain, the Holy Father stepped out of the church to pray the Angelus with the tens of thousands of faithful on hand.
As he did in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on the first day of the journey and again in his homily at Mass moments earlier, the Holy Father once more put emphasis on the value of life, marriage and family and the importance of their protection.
Jesus, he said in his words before the Angelus, "in the silence of the home of Nazareth, taught us without words of the dignity and the primordial value of marriage and the family, the hope of humanity, in which life finds its welcome from conception to natural death.