CNA: Choosing to be faithful, the Pope continued, is equally important in both smallest and the most difficult situations, highlighting how throughout the history of the Church we see that there are “men, women, old, young, that make this choice.”
“When we listen to the life of the martyrs, when we read in the papers of the persecution against Christians today,” he observed, “we think of these brothers and sisters in extreme situations that make this choice.”
Martyrs “live in our time,” he stressed, adding that “they are an example for us, and their example encourages us to commit all our lives for the treasure of the Church.” Read more here.
