In address to scouts, Pope stresses importance of family, creation
November 10, 2014
Pope Francis met with members of the Italian Adult Catholic Scout Movement on November 8 and encouraged them to be “missionary disciples” who pray and listen to God’s word.
The Pontiff’s talk focused on three themes: the family, creation, and the city. Describing the family as the “primary place of education,” the Pope said that the upbringing of children, founded on the Sacrament of Marriage, is a “real ministry in the Church.”
Because we recognize in creation the imprint of the Creator, Christians have all the more reason “to join with all people of good will for the protection and defense of nature and the environment,” Pope Francis continued.
In the city, the Pope said, people at times are in danger of getting lost, and the Pope encouraged the scouts to offer their brothers and sisters the “compass” of an “oriented heart”-- a heart “with the sense of God.”
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