KNOXVILLE (TN)
KnoxNews
September 8, 2018
By Terry Mattingly
After a week of headlines and dissent, Pope Francis delivered a sermon that — once again — offered silence as his strategic response to critics.
The “father of lies, the accuser, the devil” is trying to divide Catholics, said the pope. When faced with “people who do not have good will, with people who seek only scandal, who seek only division, who seek only destruction, even within families,” the proper response is “silence, and prayer.”
This echoed earlier remarks when, asked about a scathing epistle by the Vatican’s former U.S. ambassador, Pope Francis said, “I will not say a single word on this.”
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