Vatican City, Sep 30, 2018 / 07:19 am
Pope Francis advised Sunday that we be open to the good, regardless of whether it comes from someone outside our own "circle".
The pope reflected Sept. 30 on the day's Gospel, in which Christ taught his disciples humility and to avoid scandal. He was delivering the Angelus address in St. Peter's Square.
When the disciples objected to someone outside their group casting out a demon, Pope Francis said they "demonstrate a closed attitude before an event that does not fit into their schemes, in this case the action, though good, of a person 'external' to the circle of followers."
"Instead Jesus appears very free, fully open to the freedom of the Spirit of God, who in his action is not limited by any boundary and by any enclosure. Jesus wants to educate his disciples, even today, to this interior freedom."