The sentence that sparks a lot of discussion is the very harsh sentence you utter Pope Francesco During the Epiphany sermon. phrase focused on the paper, who gave a comment on what happened. “When you least expect it, Pope Francis takes the opportunity to give the church another lash from the inside out a bit, not too dynamic and even less missionary in the highest sense of the term,” recalls the paper he took out. Claudio Serrassa.

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“At what stage are we in the journey of faith?” asked the Pope, before the cardinals and bishops assembled in the Vatican Cathedral. “We weren’t stuck for long, Standing inside a traditional religion, a formal outsider, no longer heart-warming and life-altering? Do our words and rituals arouse in the hearts of people the desire to turn to God, or is it a “dead language” that only speaks for itself and for itself? Pope Francis said: “It is sad that a group of believers no longer desires, and, having grown tired, continues to manage things.”

As mentioned, the pontiff’s words were very harsh, heavy, and cruel. Indeed, Bergoglio denounces the “writing function” He attributes this to a “crisis of faith in our lives and in our societies.” Crisis, as Il Foglio points out, “also related to the demise of the desire for God,” with “the sleep of the soul.” The result, he added, is “the closed-off, the closed bishops, the closed priests, the closed consecrated”. Words that, needless to say, raise more than a doubt, more than a question, and more than a controversy in the Vatican.