Pope: Church isn't a custom's post, its doors are open

[Judi Lynn]

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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