"Those that do not love cannot see Jesus, who is present in the powerless and the voiceless, in the hungry and the naked, in the sick and the prisoners, in the victims of war and violence, of oppression and injustice. This Synod should lead to an examination of conscience. Perhaps our failure to evangelize comes from our inability to recognize the presence of Jesus because our hearts are not "fixed on Jesus". Perhaps we listen more to voices from the hedonistic, materialistic, consumeristic culture than to the Word of God which, in theory, we give so much importance to"
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- H. Exc. Most Rev. Anthony Theodore LOBO, Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi (24 April 1998) Press Office of the Holy See
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Anthony Theodore Lobo
Anthony Theodore Lobo (4 July 1937 – 18 February 2013) was a Pakistani prelate who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Karachi and as the bishop of the Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi.
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