The Pope has launched an appeal for unity in the Church, after the controversy caused by the publication of the memoirs of the personal secretary of the late Benedict XVI, Georg Gänswein, which have been used as a weapon against the pontificate of Francis, calling for unity and urging not to get lost in «secondary discussions».
«May it not happen to us to preach salvation for all and make the way to receive it impractical; may we know we are called to bring the proclamation of the Kingdom and neglect the Word, dispersing ourselves in so many secondary activities or in so many secondary discussions,» Francis said during the homily of the Mass on the occasion of the Sunday of the Word of God established by him in 2019.
In the Mass he celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Francis urged against professing «a wide-hearted God» and «being a narrow-hearted Church.» «This would be, I dare say, a curse,» the Pontiff assured.
His reflection comes ten days after the publication of Gänswein’s book «Nient’altro che la verità» (Nothing but the truth), published by Piemme, which confirmed the presence of alleged polarized currents in the Church and in which he considered a mistake the document ‘Traditionis Custodes’, with which Francis limited the Masses in Latin, typical of times prior to the Second Vatican Council.
«This is what the Church has shown us: all of us, including the pastors of the Church, are under the authority of the Word of God. Pope: there is only one Church, God asks us to be united,» he added.
The Pontiff also urged the Church to put «the Word at the center», to widen the «frontiers», to open herself «to people» and to generate «experiences of encounter with the Lord, knowing that the Word of God is not crystallized in abstract and static formulas, but knows a dynamic history made of people and events, of words and actions».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
