{"id":59700,"date":"2026-03-25T17:19:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/?p=59700"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:38:23","slug":"traditional-mass-education-abuse-letter-pope-letter-french-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/misa-tradicional-educacion-abusos-carta-papa-obispos-franceses\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Mass, Catholic education and abuse: the Pope's surprising letter to French bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cardinal Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, has sent today - March 18 - a <a href=\"https:\/\/eglise.catholique.fr\/conference-des-eveques-de-france\/cef\/assemblees-plenieres\/assemblee-pleniere-eveques-france-mars-2026\/570374-lettre-pape-leon-eveques-mars-2026\/\">letter to the french bishops<\/a>, gathered in Lourdes for their Plenary Assembly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The text is the initiative of Pope Leo XIV who, in addition to sending his prayers for the fruits of this meeting, touches on many important aspects with remarkable clarity and courage.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Holy Father shows his interest in several topics to be addressed by the prelates during these days. First of all, he highlights education, \u201ca topic that especially resonated with Pope Francis because of its crucial importance both for the future of the world and for the proclamation of the Gospel.\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a context of \u201cgrowing hostility towards Catholic institutions and questioning of their distinctive character,\u201d the Pontiff \u201cencourages a firm defense of the Christian dimension of Catholic education, which, without reference to Jesus Christ, would lose its fundamental purpose.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Child abuse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to continuing with the process of repairing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/firmas\/elefante-abusos-espana\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"59676\">reparations to victims<\/a> that they have initiated in France and continue to develop prevention measures, the Pope explains that mercy must also reach \u201cpriests guilty of abuse\u201d so that they also \u201cbecome the object of your pastoral reflections\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leo XIV notes that after \u201cyears of painful crises, the time has come to look firmly to the future and offer a message of encouragement and confidence to the priests of France, who have suffered greatly.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Traditional Liturgy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, the Holy Father asks to pay special attention to the communities linked to the Vetus Ordo, which are growing in number. Specifically, Parolin points out that \u201cit is worrying that a painful wound in the celebration of the Mass, the very sacrament of unity, continues to open in the Church\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo heal it, a new mutual perspective is certainly necessary, with a greater understanding of each other's sensitivities,\u201d the letter continues. It encourages \u201ca perspective that allows the brothers, enriched by their diversity, to welcome one another in charity and unity of faith\u201d and concludes with the hope that \u201cthe Holy Spirit will suggest concrete solutions that will allow the generous inclusion of those sincerely adhering to the Vetus Ordo, according to the guidelines established by the Second Vatican Council in matters of Liturgy\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El cardenal Parolin, Secretario de Estado Vaticano, ha enviado hoy -18 de marzo- una carta a los obispos franceses, reunidos en Lourdes para la celebraci\u00f3n de su Asamblea Plenaria. El texto es iniciativa del Papa Le\u00f3n XIV que, adem\u00e1s de enviarles sus oraciones por los frutos de esa reuni\u00f3n, toca muchos aspectos importantes con una [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":59702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,51],"tags":[1272,2319],"class_list":["post-59700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-vaticano","tag-francia","tag-papa-leon-xiv","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}