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18 February 2022
Pope Francis offers a reflection on his more than 52 years of priesthood, giving advice to other clerics in his opening address of a three-day conference on the theology of the priesthood, held in the Vatican.
There is “no theory here, I’m speaking about what I lived”, the Holy Father said.
“It may be that these reflections are the ‘swan song’ of my own priestly life, but I can assure you that they are the fruit of my own experience”.
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