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Pope Francis berates Vatican's Administrative Red Tape: Presstv
The Holy See has taken Vatican to task for administrative red tape with fiery words, saying that Vatican’s administrative apparatus suffers from “spiritual Alzheimer’s” and a number of other “diseases.” On Monday, Pope Francis said the Vatican’s central bureaucracy, the Roman Curia, was suffering from 15 “diseases.” In particular, the pontiff spoke against the “hoarding disease” that sees members of the clergy “amassing material goods, not out of need, but to feel safe.”
The church hierarchy is suffering from “the disease of existential schizophrenia: it is the disease of those living a double life (who) create a parallel world, where they disregard (the rules) that they sternly teach to others and live a life that is secret and often dissolute,” he added. Francis also said some prelates were suffering from “spiritual Alzheimer’s disease,” meaning that they had gradually lost their spirituality, forgotten their connection with God, becoming slaves to “their passions, whims and manias.”
The pope was elected in March 2013 with a mandate to clean up a Catholic Church that had been shaken by Benedict XVI’s surprise resignation and worldwide revelations about pedophile priests. The pontiff has established a series of specialist bodies to tackle corruption and poor management in the Vatican, including the naming of eight cardinals from around the world to advise him on the Curia overhaul.
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