Folks, the world is morphing to a center of Open Awareness. The trick is, you have to do you own inner work to wake up. One of the most powerful signals yet is this speech by the Pope.....
Pope
Francis today issued a blistering critique of the Vatican bureaucracy
that serves him while delivering a Christmas message to cardinals,
bishops and priests who run the Holy See.
Rather
than offering a traditional good-willed festive greeting, the pontiff
described how some of those under him lust for power at all costs and
lead hypocritical double-lives.
He
suggested others suffer from 'spiritual Alzheimer's' and forget they're
supposed to be joyful men of God - while offering a sobering catalog of
the 15 sins of the Curia.
The sins,
or ailments as he called them, included how the 'terrorism of gossip'
can 'kill the reputation of our colleagues and brothers in cold blood.'
Another
of the sins was how cliques can 'enslave their members and become a
cancer that threatens the harmony of the body' and eventually kill it by
'friendly fire'.
Francis is the first Latin American pope and never worked in the Italian-dominated Curia before he was elected.
He has not shied from complaining about the gossiping, careerism and bureaucratic power intrigues that afflict the Holy See.
But as his reform agenda has gathered steam, he seemed even more emboldened to highlight what ails the institution.
The
cardinals were not amused. The speech was met with tepid applause, and
few were smiling as Francis listed one by one the 15 'Ailments of the
Curia' that he had drawn up, complete with footnotes and Biblical
references.
The
annual Christmas greeting comes at a tense time for the Curia, the
central administration of the Holy See which governs the 1.2-billion
strong Catholic Church.
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