“Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the Church, the first means of evangelization is the witness of an authentically Christian life, given over to God in a communion that nothing should destroy and at the same time given to one's neighbor with limitless zeal. As we said recently to a group of lay people, “Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.”
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Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI, born Giuseppe Montini, was the 262nd Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, serving from 1963 to 1978. His pontificate witnessed several significant reforms, including the implementation of the Second Vatican Council. more
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