Italy: Scalfari’s blunders
18-01-2014
On the waves of Vatican Radio, the director of the Holy See’s Press Office answered that “those who truly follow the pope every day know how often he speaks of sin, of our condition as sinners.” Fr. Federico Lombardi pointed out that there is no mercy without sin, recalling also that Pope Francis, a Jesuit, could not be insensible to the spiritual Exercises of the founder of the Company of Jesus, St. Ignatius of Loyola “the first week of which is dedicated to meditations on sin.”
The Vatican spokesman also pointed out an important error in the editorial by Eugenio Scalfari, who wrote that the pope had “canonized St. Ignatius of Loyola a few days ago.” “As we all know, the Pope canonized Pierre Favre, St. Ignatius of Loyola’s first companion a few days ago,” stated Fr. Lombardi, mentioning that the founder of the Company has been “a saint of the Church for several centuries.”
(sources: apic/imedia – DICI no.288 Jan. 17, 2014)
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