God's word not ideology says pope

(ANSA) - Vatican City, January 17 - Pope Francis said Thursday the Word of God is not ideology but it is life that makes us grow.
    What does it mean for a Christian to have a "perverse heart," a heart that can lead to faintheartedness, ideology, and compromise? Francis asked in his homily Thursday morning at the Mass at Casa Santa Marta.
    "Take care, brothers, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God." This is the harsh "message", the "warning" as Pope Francis calls it, that the author of the Letter to the Hebrews addresses to the Christian community in today's liturgy. The pope warns that the Christian community, in all its components - "priests, nuns, bishops" - runs this danger of "slipping towards a perverse heart".