- Didn’t mean that thing at the beginning of the year about criticism OK
FRANCIS GIVES ANNUAL CHRISTMAS ADDRESS; IL PAPA’s “PAPAL FESTIVUS”
George Costanza’s Dad had nothing on Pope Francis. The “Jerry Steinfeld Show” character each year led the family celebration of “Festivus, for the Rest of Us”.
It was the alternative to traditional Christmas gatherings of family and close friends…an occasion on which, if you’ve been holding a long-standing grudge with an attendee, Festivus was the time to air your grievances.
And so, Pope Francis does!
Each year he uses the occasion of his annual Christmas message to give the leaders of the Vatican offices an annual “report card” on their performance of the past year.
This year was a typical Franconian speech.He described the “plotting, pride, and ambition” among Vatican officials as a “cancer”, which he said was “holding back reform of the Catholic Church”.
Specifically, it seems the Pontiff was “airing his grievances” toward those who disagreed with his ideas for church reform…or for anything else.
Pope Francis, who has parlayed a carefully crafted image of “humbleness” into worldwide popularity, uses the annual Christmas message, as he did this year, to really let it all out, to “denounce unbalanced and degenerate logic of plots and cliques” which he described as a cancer on church institutions and on the officials themselves. DLH
