“When the Church is viewed in terms of conflict – right versus left, progressive versus traditionalist – she be-comes fragmented and polarized, distorting and betraying her true nature. She is, on the other hand, a body in continual crisis, precisely because she is alive. She must never become a body in conflict, with winners and losers, for in this way she would spread apprehension, become more rigid and less synodal, and impose a uniformity far removed from the richness and plurality that the Spirit has bestowed on his Church.”

Pope Francis
to the roman curia Benediction Hall monday,
21 December 2020