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The bishops, he continued, must adopt "a pattern of life that unequivocally rejects any temptation to ostentation, careerism, or the recourse to secular models of leadership and instead requires you to bear witness to the ‘kenosis’ of Christ, in pastoral charity, humility and simplicity of life.”

You get the idea that His Holiness is beginning to lose patience. He knows more than he's letting on.
2 posted on 05/15/2004 6:35:54 AM PDT by Desdemona (Music Librarian and provider of cucumber sandwiches, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary. Hats required.)
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Yep. He knows. And it's not only that he knows about certain personal scandals. He knows that some of these guys don't believe much that the Church teaches, and he's calling them to repent.


4 posted on 05/15/2004 6:42:04 AM PDT by B Knotts
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