Zenit: Papal Address at Sant'Egidio's Soup Kitchen
"Whoever Serves and Helps Is at the Same Time Helped and Served" [2010-01-07]

Could Sant'Egidio be described as a lay movement dedicated to the corporal works of mercy? How are their liturgies/paraliturgies? Does the community have an official book of prayer? Does this supplant the liturgy of the hours?

The movement is noted for its stance against the death penalty. Is it too globalist? The Church is made up of those who have been baptized, regardless of their nation, but She cannot be identified simply with all of the believers qua members of certain political communities (or nations or political communities taken as a whole). The Church may not have borders, but political communities do, and must have borders for the sake of order and the common good, in so far as communities are separate from one another. Political communities cannot but be separate, even if their hearts have been renewed by the Holy Spirit, if they are to rightly meet the aspirations of their members as citizens.

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