Pope Francis, appearing fully recovered from a bout of bronchitis, on Thursday began an intense four days leading to Easter urging priests to avoid fomenting division in the Church and seek harmony if they wanted to win back lapsed faithful.
"Many times we priests are rude," he said in the homily of a Holy Thursday Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on the day the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the birth of the priesthood.
Francis, along with dozens of cardinals and bishops and about 1,800 priests, gathered in Christendom's largest church and renewed the vows they took on the day of their ordination. "How many people fail to approach us, or keep at a distance, because in the Church they feel unwelcomed and unloved, regarded with suspicion and judged?"
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