Vatican City, Apr 4, 2017 / 10:41 am
On Tuesday Pope Francis spoke about what an 'integral human development' looks like, saying that development must include the whole person, both physically and spiritually.
"Development does not consist in having the regulation of more and more goods, for just a material well-being," he said April 4. "Integrating body and soul also means that no development work can really achieve its purpose if it does not respect the place where God is present to us and speaks to our hearts."
In Christ "God and man are not divided and separated. God became man to make of human life, both personal and social, a concrete path to salvation," he reflected.
"So the manifestation of God in Christ – including his acts of healing, liberation, and reconciliation that we are called to propose to the many injured by the roadside – shows the way and the mode of service that the Church intends to offer to the world," he explained.