Thursday, August 23, 2018

Pope Francis criticises clericalism in his letter

Pope Francis in his 2,000-word letter on Monday to all Catholics around the world writes: 

"Clericalism, whether fostered by priests themselves or lay persons, leads to an excision in the ecclesial body that supports and helps to perpetuate many of the evils that we are condemning today.” 

In that same letter he stresses how the church is made up of all the people of God. 

“Indeed, whenever we have tried to replace, or silence, or ignore, or reduce the people of God to small elites, we end up creating communities, projects, theological approaches, spiritualties and structures without roots, without memory, without faces, without bodies and ultimately, without lives.”

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