“Hypocrisy is the worst enemy of this Christian community,” commented Pope Francis. “To fail in the sincerity of sharing, in fact, or to fail in the sincerity of love, means cultivating hypocrisy, distancing oneself from the truth, becoming selfish, extinguishing the fire of communion and fating oneself to the chill of inner death,” he said.

Pope Francis
during his General
Audience on
21 August 2019