Pope Francis has accused young priests who wear traditional priestly garments of “clericalism”.
Addressing hundreds of synodal participants in the Paul VI audience hall at the Vatican, the Pontiff stated that it was a “scandal” to “go to ecclesiastical tailors in Rome see… young priests trying on cassocks and hats or albs and surplices with lace.”
“Clericalism is a whip, it is a scourge, it is a form of worldliness that soils and damages the face of the Lord’s bride; and enslaves God’s faithful holy people,” he added.
