Vatican City, Sep 12, 2018 / 04:12 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Attachment to sin and vice are a form of interior slavery which inhibit the ability to love, but true freedom is always found in God’s mercy, Pope Francis said at the general audience Wednesday.

“All these vices, these sins, this selfishness turn us away from love and make us unable to love,” the pope said Sept. 12. “Who is therefore the true slave? Who is he who knows no rest? That [man or woman] who is not able to love!”