Recognizing that some members of the church "have unfortunately hurt you," the pope said, the church "kneels with you today before our Mother (Mary). "May we learn to listen to your wounds and walk together," he said in his homily Sept. 15, the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. "Where there is evil, we must seek the comfort and consolation that can overcome it and give it no respite," he said. The pope highlighted the collective anguish of entire peoples "crushed by the weight of violence, hunger and war." On the other side was a representation of Rome's Marian icon, the "Salus Populi Romani," ("Salvation of the Roman People").