LE FIGARO. – Is your appointment to the cardinalate a new charge or a culmination?
M:letter Jean-Marc Avelain. – It is primarily the connection with the Holy See and especially the Pope that characterizes the office of cardinal. When I was an auxiliary bishop, my job was primarily to serve the archbishop. It is somewhat the same as what I have to do now, in the service, this time, in the service of the Pope. But the basic vocation for all the baptized is the same: to advance as far as possible on the path to holiness. Then no particular calling is greater than the others, none can live without the others, and none has the monopoly of holiness.
Is this election of the Pope also a way to welcome Marcel?
The Pope has long been attracted to Marseilles, long before I became his archbishop, because this city is one of the dividing lines in his eyes, along which he likes to go to witness. mercy…
Source: Le Figaro
