Pope : Priests are pastors, not functionaries
Pope Francis has urged Italian seminarians, formators and bishops from the southern Italian region of Calabria, to address the new pastoral challenges in their Dioceses by renewing priestly formation and joining forces.
Noting that, despite often making headlines for crime-related incidents, Calabria has a precious cultural and spiritual heritage “that unites the East and the West,” the Pope remarked that without “a renewed commitment to promote evangelization and priestly formation,” that heritage dating back to Greek times, risks “remaining only a beautiful past to be admired.
“It is very sad," he said,"when you find priests who are functionaries, who have forgotten they are pastors of the people and have turned into state clerics, like those of the French courts, le Monsieur l'Abbé."The Pope then turned the question to the bishops present, inviting them to reflect on what kind Church they dream of, and, therefore, what kind of priest they imagine for their flock.
“It is necessary to join forces and pool ideas, to address some pastoral challenges that are now transversal to all the diocesan churches of a region. I am thinking of the evangelization of young people; of Christian initiation courses; of popular piety, which needs unitary choices inspired by the Gospel; but I am also thinking of the needs of charity and the promotion of the culture of legality.
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