VATICAN CITY
Pittsburgh Catholic
Saturday, November 19, 2016
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — Catholics will forgive their priests for almost any weakness, but not for an exaggerated attachment to money or for mistreating parishioners, Pope Francis told 160 priests who work in Vatican nunciatures around the world.
“The people of God have a great nose” for sniffing out priests who serve the god of money more than God the father, he told the priests Nov. 18.
Celebrating Mass with them in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, Pope Francis focused on the day’s Gospel reading, which was St. Luke’s account of Jesus throwing the money-changers out of the temple.
In the reading, Jesus accuses the merchants of turning the Lord’s house into a “den of thieves.”
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