Pope warns against “the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness.”

This won't sit well with some people.

“Anyone who does not pray to the Lord prays to the devil,” Francis said, quoting Leon Bloy, a French writer who died in 1917, and who converted from agnosticism to Catholicism.

When he said Mass for the College of Cardinals in
the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, newly elected Pope Francis I warned
these princes of the church against professing what he called “the
worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness.”

“Anyone who does not pray to the Lord prays to the
devil,” Francis said, quoting Leon Bloy, a French writer who died in
1917, and who converted from agnosticism to Catholicism.

“When we profess Christ without the Cross, we are not disciples of
the Lord, we are worldly: we may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes,
but not disciples of the Lord,” the pope told the cardinals.

Here's the text of his homily – and it's quite short.


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