Pope to Church: Don’t act like you’re on lockdown

Vatican City: Pope Francis centered his weekly catechesis on the upcoming Year of Mercy, urging the Church not only to keep its doors open, but to go out to those who may not have the strength to enter.

“An inhospitable Church, like a family which is locked in on itself, demeans the Gospel and withers up the world,” the Pope said last Wednesday to attendees at his general audience in the Vatican. “No armored doors in the Church! Open all of them!”