To carry out the continuing reform of the Church requires a willingness to change and a commitment to personal conversion, Pope Francis said Saturday, during his annual Christmas greeting to the bishops and cardinals of the Roman Curia.
Francis quoted St John Henry Newman, who said, “here on earth living is changing, and perfection is the result of many transformations.”
“For Newman, change was conversion, that is, an inner transformation,” the pope said on December 21. “Christian life is actually a journey, a pilgrimage.”
