“Instead of making malicious comments, gossiping and dividing, let’s look at each other with compassion, let’s help each other,” stressed Francis
Unusually harsh was the statement used by Pope Francis towards the conservative wing of the Vatican.
Addressing the faithful gathered today Sunday in St. Peter’s Square, the pontiff showed them the virtuous path of solidarity and invited them to avoid malicious comments.
“Brothers, we must bear one another’s burdens. Instead of making malicious comments, gossiping and dividing, let’s look at each other with compassion, let’s help each other,” the pontiff meaningfully emphasized.
“Let’s ask ourselves: am I a person who divides or understands the needs of others? Jesus or the malicious comment? Malicious comments are a deadly weapon, which kills brotherhood,” Francis added. He called on the faithful to “behave like Jesus” and “to understand, in a more complete way, what justice means”.
According to many analysts, Pope Francis also wanted to refer to the attacks he has been receiving, in recent days, from Father Georg Genswein, Benedict’s special secretary. A few days after Joseph Ratzinger’s death, Genswein, among other things, accused Francis of “restricting the liturgy to Latin, he broke Ratzinger’s heart” and of not following the late pontiff’s advice regarding the position of the Catholic Church for homosexuals.
Just three days from the exodus procession for the honorary Pope Benedict, the conflict between progressive and conservative clergy is taking on greater dimensions, Deutsche Welle comments. The main goal of the ultra-traditional wing inside the Vatican is not so much to change the current balances. Many do not even rule out the possibility to reach a schismby cutting off the conservative wing of the clergy from the Church of Rome.
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