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Catholics Must Build a More Humble Church, Seeking Truth Together, Pope Says

Pope Leo XIV urged synodal teams to embrace humility and shared discernment to harmonize tensions within the Church between unity, diversity, and authority, fostering a collegial community.

  • At the Jubilee Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Leo XIV invited synodal teams and participatory bodies to reflect on the mystery of the Church and urged that love is the supreme rule.
  • Framing the issue, Pope Leo XIV said tensions run between unity and diversity, tradition and novelty, authority and participation and must be purified by the Spirit.
  • Using the Gospel parable, Pope Leo XIV contrasted the Pharisee's self-obsession with the tax collector's humility to show how division can exist even while praying together.
  • He urged rejecting clericalism and vainglory so roles serve rather than dominate, enabling a more collegial Church, and called on synodal teams and participatory bodies to practice interior freedom, humility, prayer, dialogue, fraternity and parrhesia to walk together seeking God.
  • Invoking Bishop Antonio Bello, Pope Leo XIV urged acknowledging mistakes, taking responsibility and entrusting them to God's mercy, while clothing ourselves with the sentiments of Christ to expand ecclesial space.
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In the days of the Jubilee of the Synodal Teams, arrived in Rome from the five continents, Pope Leo outlines his vision of the Synodal Church more and more clearly, in the wake of the path initiated by Francis. In Mass at St. Peter he asks for a "synodal" Church, "attracted by Christ and therefore extended to the service of the world," saying a clear no to "personalisms" so that all may "walk together." "In the Church relations do not respond to…

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Vatican News broke the news in on Sunday, October 26, 2025.
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