Pope Francis rejected the "ideological battles" in the Church when celebrating the opening mass of the Synod in St. Peter's Square, which during October will bring together more than 450 lay and religious participants to debate the future of Catholicism, and which opposed by the conservative sectors of the Curia. "Dear brother cardinals, brother bishops, brothers and sisters, we are at the opening of the Synodal Assembly. And it is not useful for us to have an immanent view, made of human strategies, political calculations or ideological battles," the pontiff said today in his homily. opening of the work that will last until October 29, with the direct participation of 464 members from around the world. "We are not here to hold a parliamentary meeting or a reform plan," he told them, after this week he received a public letter from five conservative cardinals criticizing the issues that the Synod will discuss. Thus, he asked that the participants stay away from "some dangerous temptations: that of being a rigid Church, which shields itself against the world and looks to the past; that of being a lukewarm Church, that surrenders to the fashions of the world; that of being a tired Church, withdrawn into itself".