Did anyone tell him the legal corporate structure? Statements like this can open the whole Catholic church to liability from the abuse crisis.
How does this statement (by the Pope) make the Church any more open to liability concerns than it already is?
It seems to me, if anything, it would make it less vulnerable, since if no priest or bishop "owns"'their parish or dioceses, then any civil suit could never recover any financial judgement, as the persons in question never "owned" anything in the legal sense.