December 22, 2014

Pope takes on Vatican

Reuters -  The Vatican's top administrators would have been expecting an exchange of pleasantries at their annual Christmas meeting with Pope Francis on Monday.

Instead, he chose the occasion to issue a stinging critique, telling the priests, bishops and cardinals who run the Curia, the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, that careerism, scheming and greed had infected them with "spiritual Alzheimer's".

He listed no fewer than 15 "sicknesses and temptations", from the "spiritual Alzheimer's" of those who had become enthralled by worldly goods and power to the "existential schizophrenia" of those who had succumbed to a joyless, hard-hearted mindset.

Francis said some in the Curia acted as if they were "immortal, immune or even indispensable", an apparent reference to retired cardinals who remain in the Vatican and continue to exert influence.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well, I'm as guilty as anyone, for not having chosen to enter comments, generally speaking. This post, however (to use a cliche) ".. warms the cockles of my heart". No idea, for th e moment, what "cockles" are, but I've really liked the public persona and "action" of this PAPA." Il papa" seems to "speak it the way it should be spoken", though I'll never convert to "Catholicism". Ironic, that "catholic" is a term used to represent broad brush inclusiveness in perspective. OK, comment has aged, and should be terminated herewith :)