Cardinal Ravasi: His Faithful Are the Unfaithful

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi claimed in a very long interview with LaRazon.es (7 April) that Pope Francis wanted "the truth to be told" about his illness, "because sometimes this has not happened in the Vatican".
He cites Benedict XVI as a negative example, because Benedict called him to ask him to celebrate a Mass in his place and told him that he was going to resign, insisting that Ravasi not say anything in his homily: "You can't preach about what the Church of the future will be like, etc. etc.". So Ravasi preached "ignoring what others had been saying for a whole week".
The Cardinal boasts that he is concerned with what he calls "the new digital culture".
He is dedicated to communication, "but not only on matters close to religion, I am always in contact with the outside world". This formulation reveals that he feels trapped in a kind of "inner world".
Now he uses his "colleagues in the Roman Curia" as a negative example, because they are "not like that".
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