The transcript of the Holy Father’s meeting with the Polish bishops last month in Kraków – released after his return to Rome – provides useful keys on how to interpret the Pope’s words.
All the hallmarks of Pope Francis’s rhetoric are there. There is good practical advice about missionary parishes: “If there is Confessional with the light on people always come, always!”; “Is there a place for the children to play?”
There is too the customary insult drawn from his experience of the apparently doleful state of the Church in Argentina: “There are parishes with parochial secretaries who seem like ‘disciples of Satan’, who scare the people away.”
