The Catholic Church
should not adore the "holy kickback" but take strength and joy
from the word of Jesus, Pope Francis said at a Vatican Mass
Friday.
"There is always in the Church the temptation of
corruption," he said.
This happens when, "instead of being attached to faith in
the Lord Jesus," people are "attached to money and power".
Francis quoted the passage from the gospel of Luke in which
Jesus drives out the merchants from the Temple.
"Jesus does not drive out the priests, the scribes; he
drives out the ones doing business, the merchants in the
Temple," he said.
"But the high priests and the scribes were linked to them:
the 'holy kickback' was there! They took from them, they were
attached to money and worshiped this saint," Francis insisted.
"Where there is Jesus there is no room for worldliness,
there is no room for corruption!" he said.
"And this is the battle each one of us must fight, this is
the daily battle of the Church: always Jesus, always with Jesus,
always hanging from his lips, to hear his word; and never to
seek security in another master. Jesus said it is not possible
to serve two masters: or God, or wealth; or God, or power," the
pope concluded.
Francis, who has repeatedly warned against worldly
temptations, is trying to reform the Vatican Bank and rein in
spending by prelates.
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