Glad to read the Pope’s assertions. He’s quite right and Biblical in what I read above.
As to Vaticans not having a personal relationship with Christ . . .
It’s still mystifying to me that so many Vaticans think so highly of themselves . . .
They seem to think that something magically makes them super human and immune to the human frailties mentioned in the New Testament and common to so many ‘professing’ Biblers/Proddies.
Repeatedly do folks of the EDIFICE clique hereon pontificate about how every last Vatican believes X,Y&Z and if they don’t, then they are automatically NOT Vaitcans.
How tidy.
Every denomination has it’s version of Jack Mormons or as some Vaticans have said—cafeteria Vaticans.
There are also the misguided—who’ve believed the Pastor’s press releases. Or the denomination’s press releases—MORE than they’ve believed The Bible.
Far too often those noises hinder or even prevent or sabotage a vibrant RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST in ‘favor’ of suckling at the breast of the RELIGIOUS EDIFICE.
Very hazardous, that.