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Pope Leads Penitential Service on Eve of Synod With Cardinals Confessing List of New Sins – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Pope Leads Penitential Service on Eve of Synod With Cardinals Confessing List of New Sins

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Cardinal Sean O’Malley – head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for the protection of minors – asked forgiveness “for all the times we have used the condition of ordained ministry and consecrated life to commit this terrible sin, feeling safe and protected while we were profiting diabolically from the little ones and the poor.” ~Vatican Media

By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent, LifeSiteNews, Oct 1, 2024 – 2:57 pm EDT

Joining members of the Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis presided over a penitence ceremony in the Vatican during which cardinals read out a list of petitions for forgiveness which the pope had written.

VATICAN CITY  (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis and leading cardinals of the Roman Curia have led a penitential ceremony on the eve of the Synod, asking forgiveness for failings towards creation, towards women, in the area of abuse, for using doctrine as “stones,” for “adorning the altar” instead of feeding the poor and for not being synodal enough.

Gathered in St. Peter’s Basilica Tuesday evening, Pope Francis led the assembled participants of the Synod on Synodality in a mass confession-style event. The para-liturgy – situated midway down the central nave of the basilica rather than around the altar – comprised a series of testimonies and confessions. …

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