2012-03-11 Vatican Radio: “Violence never serves humanity – it only dehumanises.” This was the Pope’s message at Sunday’s Angelus address, as he commented upon the Gospel passage of the Purification of the Temple in front of several thousand pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square.
Pope Benedict described our Lord’s action of driving the money-changers as a prophetic. “Indeed,” he said, “the prophets, in the name of God, often denounced abuses, and they sometimes did so with symbolic gestures.” It is impossible to describe Jesus as violent,, the Pope said, because “violence is contrary to the Kingdom of God; it is a tool of the Antichrist.” (News.Va: here)
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