Pope Francis has launched a stinging attack on Vatican bureaucrats, denouncing them as "hypocritical" with a "lust for power" and guilty of "careerism and opportunism" and presenting them with a list of 15 spiritual ailments.
The list is
here. Among the ailments:
12) Having a 'funereal face.' "In
reality, theatrical severity and sterile pessimism are often symptoms of
fear and insecurity. The apostle must be polite, serene, enthusiastic
and happy and transmit joy wherever he goes."
And he's coming to Philadelphia soon! To visit our own cardinal Chaput,
who has already complained the Pope has sowed "confusion" from the "devil." I wonder if the Pope will remind the Cardinal of Number 6:
6) "Having 'spiritual Alzheimer's.' "We see it in the people who have
forgotten their encounter with the Lord ... in those who depend
completely on their here and now, on their passions, whims and manias,
in those who build walls around themselves and become enslaved to the
idols that they have built with their own hands."
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