Pope reprimanded his nuncios and demanded not to be criticized

ROME.- "It is irreconcilable to be a pontifical representative and to criticize the pope, to have blogs or even to join groups that are hostile to him, to the curia and to the Church of Rome". At his third meeting with more than 100 nuncios – Vatican Ambbadadors – from around the world and other diplomats from the Holy See, the

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He claimed obedience and humility yesterday. In a "Decalogue", he called the pontifical representatives to be "men of God", of the Church and of prayer, and not to fall into luxury, into the chimentos or into "political calculations ".

"A nuncio who does not live the virtue of obedience – even when it is difficult and contrary to his own vision – is like a traveler who loses the compbad," said Francisco in a speech to the nuncios, with who he met. closed doors in the Sala Clementina del

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Just in a period marked by poisons distilled by Bishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former US official, who accused him last year of covering an influential former cardinal and continues to accuse him of being a liar, the Decalogue of Pope also suggested this case. as in other financial or badual scandals that occurred in pontifical legations.

Before beginning his speech, the Pope recalled Monsignor Leon Kalenga Badikebele, Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina, of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who died yesterday in the capital of the aftermath of cancer. In his Decalogue, the pope first stressed that "the nuncio is a man of God". It means "to follow God in everything and for everything", he explained. And he gave examples: "The man of God does not deceive his neighbor, does not fall into rumors and slander" and seeks to be holy. In the second place, he said, "the nuncio is a man of the Church" and he ceases to be when he mistreats his collaborators. "It is sad to see that some nuncios strike their collaborators with the same treatment as other nuncios when they were collaborators," he said. "It is ugly to see a nuncio in search of luxury, clothes and objects" signed "among people who lack the necessary.

The nuncio "is a man of apostolic zeal", who must preach the Gospel, he declared, in third place. Fourthly, he said that "the nuncio is a man of reconciliation", that he should act as a mediator and strive to be impartial, defend justice and peace "without to let go negatively ". He can not lock himself in the nunciature and avoid meeting people.

"The nuncio is a man of the pope," he said in fifth place. He stressed that he must "be close to the local faithful, priests and bishops". "He must continually inform the pope of the different situations and ecclesiastical and socio-political changes of the country to which he has been sent," he said. This recalled the scandal in Chile for badual abuse, of which the pope was misinformed.

"The Nuncio is a man of initiative", was the sixth "command" of the Decalogue; "obedience" (seventh); "prayer" (eighth); "of charity with works" (ninth) and finally "of humility" (tenth).