Pope Leo XIV speaks with Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim, Norway, at the Spiritual Exercises for the Pope, Cardinals residing in Rome, and heads of Dicasteries.

Pope Leo XIV speaks with Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim, Norway, at the Spiritual Exercises for the Pope, Cardinals residing in Rome, and heads of Dicasteries.

Bishop Varden focused his reflections on Tuesday morning on the theme: “Becoming Free.”

“Christian freedom is not about seizing the world with force; it is about loving the world with a crucified love magnanimous enough to make us freely wish, one with Christ, to give our lives for it, that it may be set free,” he said.