The Pope blew his top and let 'em have it!
Dec 22, 2014 10:11:10 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2014 10:11:10 GMT -6
Ever seen a Pope lose his temper? Well...this one didn't quite do such a thing, but in his words? He blew his top. He threw the book at people who I am sure, know who they are...even if the general public doesn't. I'd never have imagined hearing a Pope go on like this in public.
He's pissed!
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Spiritual Alzheimers? I'm sitting here laughing as I read it, because having grown up around Catholics...the fury this suggests is sweet to see finally turned inward on what I think has corrupted the Church from the inside out. Maybe this Pope really will end up being the one to clean house in a deep and lasting way.
He sure isn't mincing words or taking crap from anyone, is he? You have to read this whole story. He even drew this all up for them with footnotes and biblical references. Talk about telling your own staff what scumbags they are, while leaving no possible room to debate or argue a word.
Hey, I like this guy!
He's pissed!
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all costs, live hypocritical double lives and suffer from "spiritual Alzheimer's" that has made them forget they're supposed to be joyful men of God.
Francis' Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Holy See was no joyful exchange of holiday good wishes. Rather, it was a sobering catalog of 15 sins of the Curia that Francis said he hoped would be atoned for and cured in the New Year.
He had some zingers: How the "terrorism of gossip" can "kill the reputation of our colleagues and brothers in cold blood." How cliques can "enslave their members and become a cancer that threatens the harmony of the body" and eventually kill it by "friendly fire." About how those living hypocritical double lives are "typical of mediocre and progressive spiritual emptiness that no academic degree can fill."
Francis' Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Holy See was no joyful exchange of holiday good wishes. Rather, it was a sobering catalog of 15 sins of the Curia that Francis said he hoped would be atoned for and cured in the New Year.
He had some zingers: How the "terrorism of gossip" can "kill the reputation of our colleagues and brothers in cold blood." How cliques can "enslave their members and become a cancer that threatens the harmony of the body" and eventually kill it by "friendly fire." About how those living hypocritical double lives are "typical of mediocre and progressive spiritual emptiness that no academic degree can fill."
Spiritual Alzheimers? I'm sitting here laughing as I read it, because having grown up around Catholics...the fury this suggests is sweet to see finally turned inward on what I think has corrupted the Church from the inside out. Maybe this Pope really will end up being the one to clean house in a deep and lasting way.
He sure isn't mincing words or taking crap from anyone, is he? You have to read this whole story. He even drew this all up for them with footnotes and biblical references. Talk about telling your own staff what scumbags they are, while leaving no possible room to debate or argue a word.
Hey, I like this guy!
