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Pope Francis warned this Sunday that the rumor is a “plague worse than the covid” that aims to divide the Catholic Church.
The Pope deviated from the text he had prepared to reinforce his complaints about frequent rumors within Church communities and even within the Vatican bureaucracy.
Francis did not elaborate on this during his weekly blessing at the Vatican, but warned that the devil is the “greatest schemer” trying to divide the Church with his lies.
“Please brothers and sisters, let’s try not to gossip“Francisco appealed, pointing out that” the rumor is a plague worse than the covid. “
“We are going to make a great effort” in that regard, he added.
These comments came when the Pope referred to a Gospel passage about the need to correct others, especially when they do something wrong.
The Catholic hierarchy has relied on this “brotherly correction” between priests and bishops to redeem them when they commit errors and infractions without making them known publicly.
Survivors of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church reported that this form of private reprimand allowed the abuse to infest the Catholic Church, allowing sexual predatory priests and superiors, who covered up the situation, to escape punishment.
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