The vitriolic attack of François against the Roman Curia
Pope Francis on Monday at the Vatican before the prelates of the Curia on the occasion of his wishes to the government of the Church.
By Jean-Marie Guénois - 22/12/2014 at 19:44
"Narcissism", "hard heart" loss "feelings of Jesus" ... The charge is a rare violence.
It is rather a cold shower, not the vows, that employees of the Roman Curia , as its most senior officials, received Monday in Rome by Pope Francis, who received for a traditional year-end ceremony, still marked so far by a good child character. With a deep voice and a very firm tone Pope established in two different speeches, the same diagnosis, one of the fifteen "diseases" which would suffer his collaborators, he wanted to establish a "catalog" very precise which is not a flattering portrait of the Roman Curia.
First illness "feel indispensable." This is the "narcissism" launches Pope. Second disease "activism". Now, said Francois, there is "a time for everything." Third problem: "the spiritual metalling" of those who have a "hard heart". They lost "Jesus feelings" and "become unable to love." Then comes the "excessive planning", which the pastor "accountant" that leaves no "drive freedom of the Holy Spirit." Another problem: "the loss of functional harmony: the orchestra while noise" because it is not in "communion" with himself.
Sixth virus: the "spiritual Alzheimer's disease" that plagues those who have lost "the memory of their encounter with the Lord" and who let themselves locked into their "whims and fads," becoming "slaves to their idols, they have carved themselves." Seventh disease "rivalry and vainglory" guided by the search for "appearances" and "honors" sometimes at the cost of a "false mysticism". Another difficulty "existential schizophrenia," leading to a "double life" and a "typical hypocrisy of the spiritual vacuum that academic titles can not hide." "Conversion is then urgent" says François.
Ninth disease "chatter, caucuses, the gossip." This "chatter of terrorism" is expressed "never face" but "always in the back". Tenth condition: that of "the deification of leaders" or a "careerism" and an attitude of "petty". Other denunciation: "disease vis-à-vis Oblivion".
Twelfth wound "burial heads of the disease," especially vis-à-vis those that are considered with "arrogance" as "inferior," but it is a "theatrical severity" that has lost all "sense of humor. " Thirteenth evil: "the accumulation of disease" of material goods. Fourteenth stage of the Way of the Cross "disease closed circles". Finally, last illness, that "the worldly profit, exhibitionism," the "relentless pursuit of power." The Pope also asked "to go to confession" before Christmas "with docile soul" to find "joy " Putting Then, at a second hearing on the same plane "those who work without being seen" - the "gardeners, sweepers," they form a "complementary mosaic" with those in high office - the Pope demanded that all put Christ at the center of their lives. He also asked them to "go to confession" before Christmas "with docile soul" to find "joy".
François has also started the second indictment, implacable, sent to employees by a difficult word game to make in French but that summed up the spirit of his admonitions: "dear employees of the curia (dipendenti della Curia, in Italian) - not disobedient to the Curia (not Disobbedienti della Curia), as someone recently described you ! " Reflecting on the concept of "care", which is "to provide care", but also to accept the need to "get treatment" Francis, about the Curia, took the image of a mother Family ensuring "on her sick child" and who "never watch shows or never complains of not having slept and who desires a thing is to see him cured at all .
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