“They are all furious and indignant with Francis.”
And this is how he views his opponents:
“...hostile inflexibility, that is, wanting to close oneself within the written word, (the letter) and not allowing oneself to be surprised by God, by the God of surprises, (the spirit); within the law, within the certitude of what we know and not of what we still need to learn and to achieve. From the time of Christ, it is the temptation of the zealous, of the scrupulous, of the solicitous and of the so-called – today – “traditionalists” and also of the intellectuals...”
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/10/virtus-in-medio-via-media-or-laodicea.html
I don’t think any Pope has ever hurled so many insults at faithful Catholics as has Francis.