![]() Pope Francis acknowledged that there are times when he says things to curia members “that might sound harsh and pointed,” but he insisted that when he says these things, “it is not because I don’t believe in the value of kindness and persuasion.” “Precisely for this reason, we could easily fall into the temptation of thinking we are safe, better than others, no longer in need of conversion,” he said, saying, “we are in greater danger than all others, because we are beset by the ‘elegant demon,’ who does not make a loud entrance, but comes with flowers in his hand.” “For those who set out and go astray, it is easy to recognize how far they have wandered for those who remain at home, it is not easy to appreciate the hell they are living in, convinced that they are mere victims, treated unjustly by constituted authority and, in the last analysis, by God himself,” he said.Įveryone has had the experience of getting lost, he said, saying members of the curia need to be especially attentive, because “we are now living ‘at home,’ within the walls of the institution, in the service of the Holy See, at the heart of the Church.” He also pointed to forms of conversion required by the elder and younger brothers in the parable the Prodigal Son. ![]() “They had cast out the demon, but he had returned seven times stronger, and under the guise of austerity and rigor he had introduced rigidity and the presumption that they were better than others,” Pope Francis said. ![]() However, eventually “she became the soul of the Jansenist resistance, intransigent and unbending even in the face of ecclesiastical authority,” the pope said, noting that the nuns in her abbey were often described as, “pure as angels but proud as demons.”
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