© L'Osservatore Romano - Pope Francis and Benedict XVI

Message of Father Pizzaballa, New Patriarch of Jerusalem, to the Diocese

“Accepting the invitation of Pope Francis, I would like to share from Jerusalem, from this holy and wounded city for us and for the whole Church: the ability to meet and greet one another, build roads and bridges, and not walls between us and the Lord, between Bishops and Priests, Priests and Laity, between us and the other Churches, between us and our Jewish and Muslim brothers and friends, between us and the poor, between ourselves and those in need of mercy and hope.”