“I am here to listen,” Pope Leo XIV said in his opening address of the Extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals taking place in the Vatican, on 7-8 January.
The Pope began by expressing his joy at welcoming the Cardinals to Rome on the day after Epiphany, praying that the Holy Spirit may guide them during these two intense but important days of reflection and dialogue.
The Pope said their day-and-a-half together “will point the way for our path ahead."
“We must not arrive at a text," he said, "but continue a conversation that will help me in serving the mission of the entire Church.”
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