Cardinal Pietro Parolin Vatican Roundup
The difficulties accepting Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia are probably connected to accepting the new attitude and approach to providing pastoral care according to the Vatican Secretary of State.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that the Pope’s exhortation on the family “flowed from a new paradigm that Pope Francis is pursuing with wisdom, with prudence and with patience”.
“Probably the difficulties that arose and still exist in the Church, beyond some points of view on the content, are due to precisely this change in attitude that the Pope is asking of us – a change in paradigm, inherent in the text, that is asked of us, this new spirit, this new approach,” he said.
Change
He said that although every change entails difficulties, they are to be faced with “dedication” in order to encourage further growth.
When asked about the ongoing reform of the Curia, Cardinal Parolin said the process of change again has less to do with external, “structural” changes and more to do with an internal call for “conversion”.
Reform is not just a series of new laws, rules and appointments as much as it is about the kind of “deep spirit that must animate every reform of the Curia,” he said.