During his Apostolic Visit to Mozambique, Pope Francis held one of his habitual meetings with local Jesuits.
24 Jesuits gathered on September 5 for a one-hour-meeting with Francis in the Nunciature in Maputo, Father Antonio Spadaro announced on Twitter.
Francis likes to foment controversy during such meetings, and Spadaro announced that a report will be published on La Civiltà Cattolica.
On the same day, during an encounter with priests and nuns in Maputo Cathedral, Francis bemoaned that a "Modernist spirituality" had "infected" the priesthood. He told priests to fight a “crisis of priestly identity” [greatly promoted by the present Vatican].
A chosen priest told Francis about the pastoral difficulties such as a superficial evangelization, Polytheism, and the spread of Pentecostal sects which he called "one of the biggest threats to the Church and souls in Mozambique."
A Catechists added, that the neo-colonization of powerful and rich nations is trying to undermine the Catholic culture …More