Hahahahahaha!!!! Ok, I'm still not a complete fan of Pope Francis because of the 2nd outstanding investigation (inquisition) of the American nuns, but he is really pushing the right buttons constantly. Pope Francis to Curia: Merry Christmas Power Hungry Hypocrites! Lawsy!!!!
Pope Francis launched a blistering attack on the Vatican bureaucracy on Monday, outlining a “catalogue of illnesses” that plague the church’s central administration, including “spiritual Alzheimer’s” and gossipy cliques.
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The pope denounced the lust for power of ladder-climbing clerics, those who indulge in hypocritical double lives, and lamented a sense of “spiritual Alzheimer’s” 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.”
He listed 15 diseases that ail the Church and recommended remedies. My favorites so far are:
Feeling ‘immortal’ or “immune” or even “indispensible”
The cure: A visit to the cemetery, Francis said, could help us see the names of those who “maybe thought they were immortal, immune and indispensible.”
Rivalry and vainglory
The symptoms: “When the appearance, the color of vestments and honors become the first objectives of life … it is the disease that leads us to become false men and women, living a false “mysticism.”
Worldly profit and exhibitionism
The symptoms: “It is the disease of those people who relentlessly seek to increase their powers. To achieve that, they may defame, slander and discredit others, even on newspapers and magazines. Naturally, that is in order to show off and exhibit their superiority.”
All of them are real zingers to the gut and the Curia was not pleased. Hahahahahaha!!!!
I'm still looking for the entire text. Just keep getting linked to stories. Here's another from TPM Pope Uses Christmas Message to Blast the Vatican Officials Who Serve Him.
Best Christmas Message Ever.
9:52 AM PT: Thanks to Catte Nappe, here is the link to the English version of the whole text: http://en.radiovaticana.va/...