Pope: Church isn't a custom's post, its doors are open
Nicole Winfield, Associated Press
Updated 2:41 pm, Saturday, September 9, 2017
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) Pope Francis flew to a rain-soaked Medellin on Saturday to console orphans, the poor and sick and to demand priests and ordinary Colombians look beyond rigid church doctrine to care for sinners and welcome them in.
"My brothers, the church is not a customs post," Francis said. "It wants its doors to be open."
Francis was tending to in-house church business on his penultimate day in Colombia, after having spent the first half of his trip encouraging its fragile new peace process.
Heavy rain forced him into a last-minute change of plans to reach Colombia's second-largest city. Instead of taking a helicopter from the international airport outside Medellin, Francis drove down the Andes, delaying by nearly an hour the start of a Mass that was expected to draw as many as 1 million people.
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