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Pope Francis to Slovakian Catholics: We Need ‘Creativity of the Gospel,’ Not ‘A Defensive Catholicism’

Papal trip pool.Pope Francis addresses bishops, priests, religious, seminarians, and catechists in St Martin’s Cathedral, Bratislava, Slovakia, Sept. 13, 2021.

Slovakian bishops, priests, religious, seminarians, and catechists listened on headsets to a live translation of the speech, which the Pope delivered in Italian, frequently stopping for off-the-cuff remarks on everything from the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky to the importance of short homilies.