SENSE OF THE FAITHFUL

“I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the  streets,  rather  than  a  Church  which  is  unhealthy  from  being  confined  and  from clinging to its own security. I do not want a Church concerned with being at the centre and  which  then  ends  by  being  caught  up  in  a  web  of  obsessions  and  procedures.”

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— Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, paragraph 49.