CHURCH FOR THE POOR
Pope Francis renounced the spacious papal flats within the Apostolic Palace and by no means moved out of the Vatican visitor home the place he and the opposite cardinals who entered the conclave of 2013 have been billeted in easy rooms.
From the beginning, Francis despatched clear alerts to clergymen and bishops about the kind of Church he wished.
He mentioned there was no room for “careerists or social climbers” among the many clergy, informed cardinals they need to not dwell “like princes,” and mentioned the Church shouldn’t “dissect theology” in lush salons whereas there have been poor individuals across the nook.
“If investments in banks fall, it’s a tragedy and folks say ‘what are we going to do?’ but when individuals die of starvation, don’t have anything to eat or undergo from poor well being, that is nothing. That is our disaster at the moment. A Church that’s poor and for the poor has to struggle this mentality,” he mentioned early in his papacy.
