It’s shortly before daybreak and all is quiet inside the Vatican’s walls. The cardinals still seem to be sleeping in their generously apportioned official apartments. Flickering votive candles illuminate an empty Campo Santo Teutonico. In the pope’s quarters, though, the lights are already on.
The first intercession for Thursday mass, read out by a priest in the Santa Maria della Pietà church near Saint Peter’s Square at 7:15 a.m., seems to evoke the scandalous clamor that has been rocking the Vatican for weeks: “Lord, we are asking you for your people, who are suffering under the divide in the church.”
It sounds like a commentary on the fierce current global debate, centered on two men and focused on the future direction of the Catholic Church. They are, in a sense, neighbors: Pope Francis, who lives in the Casa Santa Marta guest house, and his predecessor Benedict XVI, who stepped down in 2013 and lives in a monastery only a few hundred meters away on the hill.
It is shameful that Cardinals are still seem to be sleepnig in their generously apportioned official apartments , specially whenpublic is facing Coronavirus disease?
sami sheikh