VATICAN (CNS): The Catholic Church needs bishops who promote unity, “not soloists singing their own tune or captains fighting personal battles,” Pope Francis told 74 new bishops from 34 countries in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America on September 8.
They new bishops were in Rome attending a course sponsored by the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.
He told them, “Dear brothers, flee from clericalism, an anomalous way of understanding the Church’s authority, one common in many communities where sexual abuse and the abuse of power and conscience have occurred.”
The pope said that while some bishops think they have “all the talents, all the charisms” necessary to run the...
