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POPE-SEPT11 Sep-12-2005 (380 words) With photo. xxxi
On Sept. 11, pope pays homage to all victims of terrorism
By Catholic News Service
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) -- On the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Pope Benedict XVI paid homage to all victims of terrorism around the world and appealed for an end to hatred and renewed dedication to peace.
"Today, 11 Sept., we remember the victims of terrorist violence throughout the world," he said at the end of his noontime Angelus prayer at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.
"May God inspire men and women of good will everywhere to renounce hatred and to build a world of justice, solidarity and peace," he said.
The Vatican press office released a written copy of the pope's remarks the same day.
The pope also extended "a warm welcome to all the English-speaking visitors present" at the Angelus.
In Rome, U.S. Archbishop John P. Foley said the unpredictable attacks by terrorists and the recent Hurricane Katrina disaster in the United States remind people that "we are dependent every moment of our lives upon the Lord."
While human beings are autonomous, they are not self-sufficient, he said in his Sept. 11 homily at Rome's American parish, Santa Susanna.
Christians are called to live their lives "in that delicate balance between personal responsibility and effort and the realization that we depend totally and utterly upon God, our creator and redeemer," he said.
"How many people put their trust in money and possessions -- and we see how soon it can all be lost. How many people put their trust in power -- and we see how soon we find ourselves powerless in the hands of a few fanatics or in the face of a force of nature," said the archbishop.
He said being utterly dependent on God may sound like a limitation, but "in reality (it is) our strength."
"No matter what tragedy may befall, we are the Lord's. He is present to us at every moment of our lives," he said.
"If we live, we live for the Lord and, if we die, we die for the Lord," he said, quoting from that day's Mass reading from St. Paul's Letter to the Romans. The archbishop said the Lord is the one "who will receive us when we die."
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