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On Monday, Pope Francis delivered the annual Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests of the Vatican that was anything but cheery. In fact, the leader of the Catholic institution used the opportunity to shame his clergy for many members’ desire for power at the expense of living a religious life — what he called, “spiritual Alzheimer’s.”
He spoke of the “terrorism of gossip” which can “kill the reputation of our colleagues and brothers in cold blood.” He said that cliques can “enslave their members and become a cancer that threatens the harmony of the body,” and that these power-hungry clergy lived lives “typical of mediocre and progressive spiritual emptiness that no academic degree can fill.”
“These and other maladies and temptations,” Francis continued, “are a danger for every Christian and for any administrative organization, community, congregation, parish, ecclesial movement, etc., and can strike at both the individual and the corporate level.”