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Fight 'religious illiteracy,' Pope exhorts priests of Rome diocese
Fight 'religious illiteracy,' Pope exhorts priests of Rome diocese
February 23, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI challenged the priests of Rome to combat “religious illiteracy” during a meeting in the Paul VI auditorium on February 23.
For his traditional meeting with the clergy of the diocese at the start of Lent, Pope Benedict presided at a lectio divina: a prayerful reading of and reflection on the Scripture. After the reading (Eph 4, 1-16), the Pope spoke about the need for priests to nourish a strong interior life so that they might—in the words of St. Paul—“walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called.”
The Pope said that priests should always be alert to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The failure to heed that guidance, he said, damages the Church.
Next the Pope said that the priests should give a high priority to religious instruction, to restore a basic understanding of the content of the faith. The “religious illiteracy” that prevails today is a grave danger, he said.
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