Be close to God, the bishop, the people, and one another, Pope tells seminarians
January 21, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: In a January 20 audience with seminarians of the Almo Collegio Capranica in Rome, Pope Francis asked, “When does one end up straying, or floundering?”
Seminarians end up going astray, the Pope answered, when they do not cultivate closeness to God, the bishop, the people, and one another.
In the Vatican’s English translation of the Pope’s remarks, the Pope also said, “The courage of St. Paul VI placed synodality as the aim of the Council” (emphasis added)—a statement not borne out by the historical record. In Pope Francis’s original Italian, Pope Francis said that Paul VI inserted synodality “alla fine del Concilio,” or at the end of the Second Vatican Council (in 1965)—a statement that is historically accurate.
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