Rome: Pope Francis urged the Vatican Cardinal, Bishop and Bureaucrat on Thursday to embrace the humility of this Christmas season, by saying their pride, our personal interests and “glitter armor” have demanded their spiritual lives and damaged their church mission.
As he has in the past, Francis used his annual Christmas address to bring the Vatican Administrator for their duties for their moral and personal failures, criticizing, especially the scholars filled with “rigid” pride in hiding behind the tradition of the Catholic Church rather than looking for the most need modesty.
As they have in the past, the cardinals and bishops faced with stones when they listened to Francis their lectures at the Hall of Blessings, which were stated on the Christmas tree and pointed.
“The humble ones are those who are concerned not only with the past but also with the future, because they know how to look forward, to spread their branches, considering the past with gratitude,” Francis told them.
“What is proud, on the other hand, just repeating, growing stiffness and attaching themselves in that repetition, feeling confident about what they know and fear of something new because they cannot control it.” Proud people who look so in consumption with their own interests, said Pontiff.
“As a result, they don’t learn from their sins also not really open to forgive.
This is an extraordinary corruption disguised as good.
We need to avoid it,” he added.
Since becoming a Pope in 2013, Francis has used its natal address to maintain the curious, because the Bureaucracy of the Holy Throne is known, criticizing “Alzheimer’s spiritual” that some members suffer and resistance they have met for their efforts to reform and revitalize the institutions and wider Catholic Churches .
This year there is no difference.
Francis delivered a beating of public eyebrows from Vatican scholars who were usually treated with full respect by their subordinates and believers.
Francis told them to stop hiding behind their “armor” their degree and to realize that they were, like the figure of the Naaman Bible, a rich and decorated general, whether leprosy sufferers need healing.
“Naaman’s story reminds us that Christmas is the time when each of us needs to find the courage to take off our armor, remove our role trap, our social recognition and luster of the world of naaman and adopt Naaman’s humility,” he said.
Francis also repeated his call for the scholars who thought of tradition to stop living in the past, by saying their obsession with old doctrine and liturgy hiding the damaged “spiritual spiritual”.
“Looking for such certainty is the most evil fruit of worldwide spiritual, because it reveals the lack of faith, hope and love; it leads to the inability to distinguish the truth of things,” he said.
Francis this year took his biggest steps yet to control the traditionalist church wings, ride restrictions to celebrate the old Latin masses that had been carried out by Pope Benedict in 2007.
He intensified the restrictions last weekend with a set of new rules that prohibit the publication of the tridentin masses in the parish bulletin.
Francis said the proud of being trapped in the past, “closed in their small world, did not have the past or future, root or branch, and lived with a bitter taste of melancholy which weighed on the most valuable devil ingredients.” “All of us Called for humility, because we are all called to remember and to give life.
We are called to find the right relationship with our roots and branches.
Without the two things, we become sick, destined to disappear, “he warned.