Urban was a good man who had, like everyone else, some weaknesses. He was a Pope who loved the poor and encouraged everyone to return to the fervor of their first conversion to God. He worked for education and was called “light for the world and way to the truth.” But Urban was easily swayed and he left Rome in order to return to Avignon, the city of France where some Popes lived because of internal problems in the church. The life of Urban evidences the fact that holiness does not consist in being perfect and without difficulties or weaknesses, but about being staunch friends of God.

Do you feel you should be firmer in some of your positions? Do you easily get swayed even about things that, deep down, you would otherwise believe?