Pope in meeting with bishops: Are there no journalists? So I can speak freely

Because of the pandemic, the Pope had not met with the plenary session of Italian bishops in the last two years.

The 74th General Assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference took place in a Roman hotel and not inside the Vatican as it usually happens.

“Are there no journalists?” “I don’t think so, there are no journalists. It’s just us, Holiness.” “Well then I can speak freely.”

The Pope framed three points of work. The first, the advances in ecclesiastical courts, of which he said he was satisfied. Second, the seminars; He said that you can not joke in the training of seminarians.

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“At this moment there is a very great danger: making a mistake in formation and making a mistake in admitting seminarians. We have often seen seminarians who seemed good but stiff, and stiffness is not a good spirit. Later, we realized that behind there were big problems ”.

And the third point is the one that has guided this stage of the pontificate of Francis, the synodality.

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“The synod has to start from the bottom, from the small communities, the small parishes, and that will ask for patience, it will ask for work, it will ask that we make people speak, that the wisdom of the people of God come forth.” .

This is precisely the issue that the entire Church is already working to address at the next ordinary assembly of the synod, in 2023, in Rome.

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