The way things were going under the past two unreformed Nazi Popes, I didn’t think I’d see a Pope talking about how the Church is supposed to enact the gospels of Jesus by being compassionate and serving the poor.
“We have to find a new balance,” he said in the interview, published in Jesuit journals across the world. “Otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.”
He added: “The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.”