10/20/2023 0 Comments The priests we need to save the churchIt comes from the Greek verb apostanai – which means to revolt or desert literally “to stand away from.” For Benedict, laypeople and priests don’t need to publicly renounce their Catholic faith to be apostates. He spoke several times about the “silent apostasy” of so many Catholic laypeople today, and even many priests and his words have stayed with me over the years because he said them in a spirit of compassion and love, not rebuke.Īpostasy is an interesting word. Yet at the same time he modeled that fidelity with a kind of personal warmth that revealed its beauty and disarmed the people who heard him. National Catholic Diocesan Vocation Directors’ national conferenceĭuring his years as bishop of Rome, Benedict XVI had the talent of being very frank about naming sin and calling people back to fidelity.
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