Vatican envoy’s trip to Aguililla a pointed message to Mexico’s bishops
Papal nuncio told a meeting of bishops that they do nothing for the Catholic community
Published on Thursday, April 22, 2021
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The Vatican’s envoy to Mexico has chastised the country’s bishops for being estranged from the faithful, according to a religion expert.
In an interview with the newspaper
Milenio, Elio Masferrer said that Archbishop Franco Coppola, apostolic nuncio to Mexico, “read the riot act” to bishops at a recent meeting of Catholic Church leaders.
Coppola told them that their administration of the church has become a disaster, Masferrer said. The papal nuncio gave the bishops “a pull on their ears,” telling them that it’s not their job to be “comfortably seated” in their offices, he said.