This Pope Francis is my kinda Pope:
Francis issued a blistering indictment of the Vatican bureaucracy Monday, accusing the cardinals, bishops and priests who serve him of using their Vatican careers to grab power and wealth, of living "hypocritical" double lives and forgetting that they're supposed to be joyful men of God.
Francis speaks truth to power, again
He's certainly living up to his namesake - St. Francis of Assisi.
If you're like me (probably not), you're mom took you to see Brother Sun, Sister Moon when you were 8 years old - Ghandi, too, but that's another story.
Brother Sun, Sister Moon is a 1970s film about the life and times of the man who would become St. Francis of Assisi, the man from whom Pope Francis takes his papal name.
Pope Francis' latest admonishment reminds me of a particular scene from that movie ... it's a little long but well worth the 15 minutes to give more context to Pope Francis' message from today.
Francis meets Pope Innocent III
It was an interesting message Pope Francis gave to the Vatican, just before Christmas:
Francis turned the traditional, genteel exchange of Christmas greetings into a public dressing down of the Curia, the central administration of the Holy See which governs the 1.2-billion strong Catholic Church. He made clear that his plans for a radical reform of the structures of church power must be accompanied by an even more radical spiritual reform of the men involved.
Amen.