True compassion requires “courageous sharing,” not telling people to go fend for themselves, Pope Francis said.
God operates according to “the logic of taking responsibility for others, the logic of not washing one’s hands, the logic of not looking the other way,” he said before praying the Angelus with visitors in St. Peter’s Square Aug. 2.
Telling people to “‘fend for themselves,’ should not enter into the Christian vocabulary,” he said.