Stop allowing clerical gatherings that disregard poverty: a bishop's powerful and applauded plea for any ecclesial meeting - ZENIT

Stop allowing clerical gatherings that disregard poverty: a bishop's powerful and applauded plea for any ecclesial meeting - ZENIT

(ZENIT News / Rome, 02.01.2026).- Sometimes reform begins not with documents or decrees, but with an uncomfortable reminder spoken aloud. That was the case at the 131st plenary assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), where Bishop Crispin Varquez delivered what colleagues later described as a timely and necessary wake-up call: stop allowing episcopal gatherings to become displays of luxury, and return instead to th…