VATICAN CITY
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Vatican City (AsiaNews) – Pray for the priests and bishops so they do not yield to the temptation of money and careerism and are shepherds of their flock and not “ravening wolves.” This was Pope Francis’ request at morning Mass in the Casa Santa Marta. The Pope reflected on the Acts of the Apostles where Paul exhorts the “elders” of the Church of Ephesus to watch over themselves and their flock, to be pastors attentive to the “ravenous wolves. ” It is, he said, according to Vatican Radio reports, one of the “most beautiful pages of the New Testament, full of tenderness, of pastoral love” from which emerges the “beautiful relationship of the bishop with his people.”
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