In almost nine years of his pontificate, the Pope has often made this annual meeting an anthology of severe reprimands.
In 2014, he listed 15 “diseases” plaguing the Curia, ranging from “spiritual Alzheimer’s” to “mental fossilization.”
But after three years this edition adopted a more moderate tone than its opponents expected.
Christmas “is the moment in which each one of us must have the courage to free ourselves from their clothes and their position, from social recognition, from their piece of world glory and to assume their own humility”, declared Francis before his cardinals and bishops, gathered in the Hall of Blessings of the Vatican.
In a 30-minute speech, the 85-year-old pope raised the future of the church with the synod, two months after the launch of an unprecedented consultation among the faithful from around the world.
After recalling that the Curia (central government of the church) “is not only a logistical and bureaucratic instrument”, but “the first body called to give testimony”, Francis affirmed that “The organization that we must install does not have a business model, but an evangelical model.”
“We, members of the Curia, must be the first to commit ourselves to a conversion to sobriety,” he insisted, after calling to “live with transparency, without favoritism and without cronyism.”
“All of us are lepers in search of a cure,” said Francisco.
“The proud, sick in his little world, have no more past or future, have no roots or fruit, live with the bitter taste of sterile sadness,” he declared in reference to criticism of the way of life of some members of the clergy.
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