During an audience granted to the members of the Blanquerna Foundation, the educational entity that owns the Ramón Llull University, dependent on the Archbishopric of Barcelona, Pope Francis stated that “the steps of the Christian hero are not marked by the desire for careerism, but are response to a call.”
In this sense, he added: “Careerism does so much harm, so much damage, because it is not communal, it is individualistic, and that is harmful.” For Pope Francis, “being required in positions of increasing responsibility must be the result of excellence in the service until now entrusted to us” and should not overshadow the fact that “even when the Supreme Pontificate has been reached, the Christian must “to tend to the encounter with the Lord, to full dedication to divine service.”
In other words, the Pontiff assured that “wherever you are, you are a baptized person, you are a baptized person who has to respond there and not from the ranks that one can reach in life.”