Archbishops - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 08 Jul 2021 08:02:51 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Archbishops - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope Francis' demanding program for new archbishops https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/07/08/pope-francis-demanding-program-for-new-archbishops/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 07:55:20 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=137971 Pope Francis has told the 34 metropolitan archbishops he appointed within the past year that the Church's pastors "need to be set free time and time again" from worldliness, rigidity, dubious associations with power and fear of being misunderstood. "Like Paul, we are called to be set free from hypocritical outward show, free from the Read more

Pope Francis' demanding program for new archbishops... Read more]]> Pope Francis has told the 34 metropolitan archbishops he appointed within the past year that the Church's pastors "need to be set free time and time again" from worldliness, rigidity, dubious associations with power and fear of being misunderstood.

"Like Paul, we are called to be set free from hypocritical outward show, free from the temptation to present ourselves with worldly power rather than with the weakness that makes space for God, free from a religiosity that makes us rigid and inflexible; free from dubious associations with power and from the fear of being misunderstood and attacked," Francis told them. Continue reading

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