Pope Francis reads during the Vespers service on July 28, 2022, at the Cathedral Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec in Québec, Canada. / Vatican MediaWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 30, 2022 / 16:48 pm (CNA).Earlier this year an Argentine priest struggling to understand the Vatican s controversial closure of one of the country s top seminaries wrote to Pope Francis seeking answers.The priest, maintaining his fidelity and that of his brother priests to the Second Vatican Council, as well as their devotion to the sacraments, the spiritual life, and the sick, inquired whether a literal reading of Vatican II meant the presbyterate was overly rigid."Is this rigidity bad? Is it ideology? Don t we have a place in the Church today?" he asked.Pope Francis wrote him back. "In your letter you point out to me that they have taken the Second Vatican Council literally and immediately afterwards you ask me if rigidity is bad," the pope wrote."Dear son, rigidity is not a g
Pope Francis reads during the Vespers service on July 28, 2022, at the Cathedral Basilica of Notre-Dame de Québec in Québec, Canada. / Vatican Media
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 30, 2022 / 16:48 pm (CNA).
Earlier this year an Argentine priest.