Tenderness? The “Past” Is Still Haunting Francis

"Do not let yourselves be paralysed by the difficulties," by "individualism and indifference," and the "resigned assessement of today's poverty of values," Francis told twenty Italian bishops meeting in Benevento on August 30-31.

He recommended "charity," "setting oneself in motion," and warned of a"nostalgic regret of the past." The most immediate past of the Church is Vatican II.

His alternative to the “past” is an unspecified transformation parishes into "gyms of Christian life, schools of service to others" by "humility" and "tenderness" likely not the "tenderness" Francis demonstrated in Traditionis Custodes.

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