From gossip to vainglory to rivalry, Francis reinvigorates curia. Pope Francis has unleashed a blistering critique of the Vatican
bureaucracy -- or Curia -- criticizing its "illnesses" ranging from the
"disease of feeling immortal" to vainglory and excessive planning.
In his annual Christmas address to the Curia at the Vatican Monday,
the Pontiff warned that "a church that doesn't try to improve is like a
sick body." Francis said suggested that it would be helpful to the
Vatican bureaucrats to have a catalog of their illnesses beginning with
"this disease of feeling immortal or indispensable."http://www.wptz.com/national/pope-slams-vatican-diseases/30349402#ixzz3NlEyCBwE
