Saturday, June 29, 2013

Pope Warns Prelates to Avoid Human Power; Asserts Faith in Christ Is the Light of Our Life

Pope Francis told prelates today (June 29, 2013) to shun the "logic of human power," pressing his campaign to root out corruption and other wrongdoing from the Vatican's scandal-tainted power structures, according to the Associated Press website.

The admonition came a day after the latest embarrassment for the Vatican hierarchy -- the arrest by Italian authorities of a Vatican accountant -- in a probe of an alleged attempt by the prelate to secure the smuggling of 20 million euros ($26 million) in banknotes from Switzerland into Italy.

The Italian monsignor -- who was suspended a few weeks earlier from his job in the Vatican finance office -- is also under investigation in a separate money-laundering probe by prosecutors in southern Italy.

"Whenever we let our thoughts, our feelings, or the logic of human power prevail, and we do not let ourselves be taught and guided by faith, by God, we become stumbling blocks," the pope said. "Faith in Christ is the light of our life as Christians and as ministers in the church."

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