Today USA Today and AP reports Pope Francis spoke his annual Christmas message to the Vatican's Curia, a group of various Vatican offices that assist the pope in his day-to-day leadership and is headed up by the College of Cardinals
Instead of a cheerful Christmas
greeting, this year's message was a strong critique of the Cardinals, Bishops
and Priests, denouncing how . . .
1. Some of the men lust for power at
all costs.
2. Live hypocritical double lives
3. Suffer from "spiritual
Alzheimer's" that has made them forget they're supposed to be joyful men
of God.
4. The "terrorism of gossip"
is killing each other, our colleagues and brothers in cold blood.
5. Cliques among the men "enslave
their members and is a cancer that eventually kills their friendship.
6.
Living hypocritical double lives causes spiritual emptiness that their
education and degrees cannot save them.
7. Some of the men of the Curia suffer
from spiritual ailments, dysfunctions, and illnesses.
8. Cardinals that lust for power even
if it means defaming or discrediting others, even in newspapers or magazines,
to show themselves as more capable.
9. Boasting the deception, the ailment
of feeling immortal, immune or even indispensable.
10. Being vain.
11.Wanting to accumulate things.
12.Having a "hardened
heart."
13.Kissing up to superiors for
personal gain.
14.Having a "funeral face."
15.Being too "rigid, tough and
arrogant," especially toward underlings.
16.Being work-a-holics and micro
managing controlling obsessed.
17.Don't allow themselves to be
surprised by the "freshness, fantasy and novelty" of the Holy Spirit.
18.Loss of sense of humor.
The Cardinals were apparently not
amused, whereas at the conclusion, the Pope's speech was met with a soft and
weak applause.
Pope Francis asked the bureaucrats to
pray that these "wounds of the sins that each one of us carries are
healed" and that the Church and Curia itself are made healthy.
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