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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The only way to carry out the new evangelization called for by Pope Francis is to adopt the pastoral style of a compassionate, humble, patient and simple priest who walks at the same pace as his people, Cardinal Pietro Parolin told seminarians.
“This is how the priest will touch the hearts of his faithful, win their trust and bring them face to face with Christ,” the cardinal wrote in a message sent on behalf of Pope Francis to seminarians in France. The Vatican published the written message from the Vatican secretary of state Dec. 1.
The pope sent his prayers and thanks to the seminarians who were attending a meeting in Paris, the cardinal wrote.
“Thank you for giving joy and hope to the church of France, which is waiting for you and needs you. And it needs you to be what the priest should be, what he has always been and what he will always be by divine will: ‘Sharing the authority by which Christ builds up, sanctifies and rules his Body,'” he wrote.
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“This is how the priest will touch the hearts of his faithful, win their trust and bring them face to face with Christ,” the cardinal wrote in a message sent on behalf of Pope Francis to seminarians in France. The Vatican published the written message from the Vatican secretary of state Dec. 1.
The pope sent his prayers and thanks to the seminarians who were attending a meeting in Paris, the cardinal wrote.
“Thank you for giving joy and hope to the church of France, which is waiting for you and needs you. And it needs you to be what the priest should be, what he has always been and what he will always be by divine will: ‘Sharing the authority by which Christ builds up, sanctifies and rules his Body,'” he wrote.
No one can change the priesthood
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No one can or will change the nature of the priesthood, cardinal says
The only way to carry out the new evangelization called for by Pope Francis is to adopt the pastoral style of a compassionate, humble, patient and simple priest who walks at the same pace as his people, Cardinal Pietro Parolin told seminarians. "This is how the priest will touch the hearts of...
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