BRAVO: Pope Francis launched a blistering attack on the Vatican bureaucracy Monday, outlining a catalog of illnesses plaguing the churchs central administration, including spiritual Alzheimers and gossipy cliques. The popes traditional Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Holy See was less an exchange of warm wishes than a laundry list of what the pontiff called the ailments of the Curia that he wants to cure. The pope denounced the lust for power of ladder-climbing clerics, those who indulge in hypocritical double lives, and lamented a sense of spiritual Alzheimers that leads clerics to forget the joy that is supposed to animate their lives. He also attacked what he called existential schizophrenia and the terrorism of gossip. He was especially critical of cliques that enslave their members and become a cancer that threatens the harmony of the body, eventually leading to death by friendly fire. These and other maladies and temptations, Francis said, are a danger for every Christian and for any administrative organization, community, congregation, parish, ecclesial movement, etc., and can strike at both the individual and the corporate level. usatoday/…/22/pope-vatican-critique/20752295/
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:06:08 +0000
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