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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Sun Feb 15, 2015, 06:03 PM Feb 2015

Pope Francis to church: Don’t be a closed caste or afraid of outcasts

David Gibson

VATICAN CITY (RNS) In a powerful sermon that signaled his desire to push ahead with historic reforms, Pope Francis on Sunday (Feb. 15) said the Roman Catholic Church must be open and welcoming, whatever the costs.

He also warned the hierarchy not to be “a closed caste” but to lead in reaching out to all who are rejected by society and the church.

“There are two ways of thinking and of having faith: we can fear to lose the saved and we can want to save the lost,” Francis told hundreds of cardinals and bishops arrayed before him in St. Peter’s Basilica at a Mass centered on the story of Jesus healing a leper rather than rejecting him.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/02/15/pope-francis-preaches-gospel-marginalized-calls-open-welcoming-church/

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Pope Francis to church: Don’t be a closed caste or afraid of outcasts (Original Post) hrmjustin Feb 2015 OP

Strong emphasis on the marginalized and excluded okasha Feb 2015 #1

okasha

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1. Strong emphasis on the marginalized and excluded

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Mon Feb 16, 2015, 12:44 PM

Feb 2015

I think Francis is getting ready to kick some doors down.

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