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5 January 2017

Francis denounces resistance to Vatican reform in Christmas speech to curia

Pope Francis on Thursday lashed out against high-level Catholic prelates who have been opposing his efforts to reform the Vatican's central bureaucracy, using an annual pre-Christmas meeting to say that while some cardinals and archbishops offer questions in a spirit of goodwill others practice a "malevolent resistance."
Such sinister opposition, the pontiff said, "sprouts from twisted minds and presents itself when the devil inspires bad intentions."

https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/francis-denounces-resistance-vatican-reform-christmas-speech-curia