Palermo, Italy, Sep 15, 2018 / 15:03 pm
During a day trip to Sicily Saturday, Pope Francis told priests and religious to fight their vices and strive to live a consistent witness of morality.
"One cannot live a double morality: one for the people of God and another in their own home," the pope told a group of priests, religious and seminarians in Palermo, Italy, Sept. 15.
"No, the witness is only one. The testimony of Jesus always belongs to him. And for his love [the priest] undertakes a daily battle against his vices and against all alienating worldliness."
He referred to the room of Bl. Pino Puglisi, who was assassinated by the Mafia 25 years ago, saying it stands "in genuine simplicity. It is the eloquent sign of a life consecrated to the Lord, who does not seek consolations and glory from the world."