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Gossip "a deadly weapon" - Pope Francis speaks after Gänswein revelations

2023-01-08T18:18:35.792Z


Gossip "a deadly weapon" - Pope Francis speaks after Gänswein revelations Created: 2023-01-08 19:04 By: Richard Strobl Pope Francis during the public funeral mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. in St. Peter's Square. © Antonio Calanni/dpa The statements by Benedikt's private secretary Gänswein caused a wave of criticism. Pope Francis also commented. Rome - After the death of Pope Emeritus Be


Gossip "a deadly weapon" - Pope Francis speaks after Gänswein revelations

Created: 2023-01-08 19:04

By: Richard Strobl

Pope Francis during the public funeral mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

in St. Peter's Square.

© Antonio Calanni/dpa

The statements by Benedikt's private secretary Gänswein caused a wave of criticism.

Pope Francis also commented.

Rome - After the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Statements by his private secretary Georg Gänswein cause great unrest in the Catholic Church.

Even Pope Francis now commented on the sidelines of a prayer.

Gänswein revealed in interviews that Benedict was not happy with the decisions made by his successor, Francis.

These comments were followed by a wave of criticism from senior church officials.

Francis himself, meanwhile, is again forgiving on Sunday.

Church crash after Benedict's death: Pope Francis condemns gossip as a "deadly weapon"

On the day that believers could visit the tomb of the late Benedict in the Vatican Grottoes, Pope Francis condemned rumors and gossip.

“Brothers, let's share, let's carry each other's burdens, instead of chatting and separating, let's look at each other with compassion, let's help each other.

Let's ask ourselves: Am I a person who shares or one who communicates?

The message of Jesus or gossip?” said Pope Francis during his Angelus prayer, according to Italy's

La Repubblica

.

Then the Pope became even more explicit and said: "Gossip is a deadly weapon that kills the Brotherhood".

The head of the church did not refer directly to the unrest after the Gänswein statements.

Still, the words can be interpreted as a reaction to this - and as an attempt by the pope to close his own ranks to prevent further public statements from church members.

Meanwhile, it is questionable whether Georg Gänswein will refrain from further critical words.

After all, it wasn't just statements in an interview that caused an uproar, but also passages in Gänswein's forthcoming book.

This bears the meaningful title "Nothing but the truth".

In it he writes, according to

dpa

information, that Benedict was “shocked” in 2020 when Francis gave him leave as prefect of the papal house and has not changed this to this day.

Will Gänswein allow further Francis criticism to follow?

Gänswein (66) also said in an interview with the

Tagespost

that Benedict Francis' decision to severely restrict the so-called old Mass read "with pain in my heart".

Joseph Ratzinger – Benedikt's real name – permitted this rite again during his pontificate (2005 to 2013) under certain conditions. 

"It would have been better to remain silent," German Cardinal Walter Kasper said in an interview with

La Repubblica

.

After Benedict's death on New Year's Eve morning at the age of 95, interviews with his longtime confidant and companion Gänswein were published in the Catholic media.

"Now is not the moment for such a thing," said the 89-year-old Kasper.

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Other church representatives were also critical.

"I think if you want to criticize the Holy Father, you don't have to do it through the mass media, you have to do it directly to him personally," the head of the US Bishops' Conference, Timothy Broglio, told

La Repubblica

.

You have to know the whole context, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller told

La Stampa

.

"Unfortunately, this is one of the controversies that does not do the people of God good".

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In an open letter to Gänswein, Don Alberto Varinelli from the Diocese of Bergamo in northern Italy called on Gänswein to stop selling the book if it was a collection of attacks.

(rjs/dpa)

Source: merkur

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