“In an unusual video message, recorded on an iPhone by a Pentecostal pastor Pope Francis knew in Argentina, the pope says all Christians share blame for their divisions, speaks of his ‘longing’ for their unity and insists that God will bring the miracle of Christian unity to completion.
“‘Pray to the Lord that he will unite us all,’ the pope tells a group of Pentecostals meeting in the United States. ‘Let’s move forward, we are brothers; let us give each other that spiritual embrace and allow the Lord to complete the work he has begun. Because this is a miracle; the miracle of unity has begun.’
“In the video, posted on YouTube and never released by the Vatican, the pope quotes a character from a novel by Alessandro Manzoni; the character says, ‘‘I have never found that the Lord began a miracle without finishing it well.’ He will finish well this miracle of unity,"’ the pope added.”
A recent Catholic News Service report presented this video with related information.
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Catholic News Service: In unusual video, pope speaks of his longing for Christian unity (20 FEB 14)
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