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IN THE CHURCH
May 9, 2017 | The Valley Catholic
True Faith Means Loving Others to the Extreme, Pope tells Egypt’s Catholics
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
CAIRO – The only kind of fanaticism
that is acceptable to God is being fanatical
about loving and helping others, Pope
Francis said on his fi nal day in Egypt.
“True faith,” he told Catholics, “makes
us more charitable, more merciful, more
honest and more humane. It moves our
hearts to love everyone without counting
the cost.”
The pope celebrated an open-air Mass
April 29 in Cairo’s Air Defense Stadium,
built by the anti-aircraft branch of the
Egyptian armed forces. The pope con-
celebrated with Coptic Catholic Patriarch
Ibrahim Isaac Sedrak of