Cardinal Sarah: "We come to see a priest because we seek God, not because we want to save the planet"

2022-07-01T04:16:23.159Z

INTERVIEW - For Cardinal Sarah, who has just published a Catechism of the spiritual life (ed. Fayard), "the Church is there to help seekers of God". He even adds: “It is its only use.”

You publish a “Catechism of the spiritual life”: has the modern world forgotten the meaning of the spiritual life?

I wrote this book during lockdown.

I was struck: we took care of the life of the bodies, but we let the souls die.

The spiritual life is nevertheless what is most intimate in us, what we have most precious.

It is our inner life.

The place of our encounter with God.

To deny the spiritual life is to deny what makes our dignity as men or women.

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Source: lefigaro

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