Vatican City, Jan 13, 2022 / 07:35 am
Pope Francis has said in a new interview that there is a great need for “spiritual fatherhood” today.
“The faith we have received is always found through a relationship with someone,” the pope said in an interview published in the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, on Jan. 13.
“There is a great urgency, in this historical moment, for meaningful relationships that we could define as spiritual fatherhood,” he said.
Pope Francis underlined that a “spiritual relationship is one of those relationships that we have to rediscover with renewed effort,” noting that it is distinct from a “psychological or therapeutic” program.