Sep 30, 2012 / 12:19 pm
Pope Benedict XVI says that Catholics should be delighted whenever non-Catholics do what is good or embrace what is true.
"Members of the Church should not feel jealousy, but rejoice if someone from outside the community does good in the name of Christ, provided this is done with right intention and with respect," he said during his Sept. 30 Angelus address at Castel Gandolfo.
The Pope was reflecting on the Sunday Gospel, as recorded by St. Mark, in which "a man, who was not the followers of Jesus had cast out demons in his name" when "the Apostle John, young and zealous, wants to stop him, but Jesus will not allow him."
Several thousand pilgrims gathered at the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo for the Angelus, where they heard the Pope remind them of the words of the 4-5th century Doctor of the Church, St. Augustine: "Just as one can find that which is not Catholic in the Catholic Church – that is, in the Church – one can also find something that may be Catholic outside of the Catholic Church."