Pope: God calls us to be merciful not rigid - Independent Catholic News

Pope: God calls us to be merciful not rigid - Independent Catholic News: Pope Francis warned against rigidity in his homily at Casa Santa Marta on Monday. God gives us the freedom and the gentleness to be merciful, he said. Reflecting on the Gospel reading of the day in which Jesus, who was teaching in the synagogue, healed a crippled woman and ignited the anger of the righteous, Pope Francis said 'it is not easy to keep to the path indicated by God's Law.' Matthew's Gospel tells us that Jesus' action provoked the fury of the leader of the synagogue who was 'indignant that he had cured the woman on the Sabbath'

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