Pope Francis meets young men who have left the
priesthood
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday met a group of young men
who have left the priesthood during the past years to show his closeness and
affection towards them. His surprise visit to an apartment in the outskirts of
Rome to meet with the group made up of five Italians, a Spaniard and a
man from Latin America, came as part of his traditional gestures of Mercy on
one Friday a month during this Jubilee Year.
A Vatican statement said the young men in question took the
difficult decision to leave the priesthood despite opposition in many cases
from their fellow priests or their families after serving for several years in
parishes where loneliness, misunderstanding, fatigue arising from their many responsibilities
prompted them to rethink their choice. It said the men spent months and years
wrestling with uncertainty and doubts before coming to the decision they had
made a mistake by becoming priests and therefore decided to leave and form a
family.
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