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Benedict XVI has visited the Fundacion Instituto San Jose, run by the Church. It ensures that society places in doubt the inestimable dignity of life. Several sick and disabled of the Center could converse with the Pontiff. Benedict XVI has been surrounded by this Saturday of the sick and disabled, children and young people who know the face of pain, and has told them that they are the image of God, their prridos, and that life is also great when it bursts into her suffering. The Pope has insisted that the society needs them because they contribute decisively to build the civilization of love, and while in that society too often put in doubt the inestimable dignity of life, of every life. He has been in a simple, spontaneous, emotionally intense ceremony held outdoors, under a sweltering heat, in the gardens of the Fundacion Instituto San Jose, which the brothers of San Juan de Dios hospital order run for more than one century. There, sick, family and workers of This humanitarian institution of the Archdiocese of Madrid, the Pontiff spoke of suffering, of the dignity of human life, created in the image of God, compassion and company. In short, love towards those who suffer most.

All them the Pope has expressed them his closeness and appreciation, reminding them of what you already said in his Encyclical on Christian hope: the greatness of humanity is essentially determined by its relationship with suffering and the suffering. For the Holy Father, a society that is unable to accept those who are suffering and is not able to contribute through compassion that suffering is shared and borne also inwardly, is a cruel and inhumane society. He wrote then and it has been to reiterate. Before, the cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, to welcome the Pope to this institution spoke of a moment, the current one, in which the Gospel of life is not understood by all.