[marshmallow]

I have to say, I didn’t feel great walking out of that room today,” one senior Vatican official said, who had been in the Vatican’s Sala Clementina for the speech and who spoke on the condition he not be identified. “I understand that the pope wants us to live up to our ideals, but you wonder sometimes if he has anything positive to say about us at all,” the official said, who’s been in Vatican service for more than two decades.

Floggings will continue until morale improves.

[livius]

The Pope criticized them for things like “working too hard” and “planning too much,” and “arrogantly exercising their power,” I guess unlike humble little flower strewing Francis himself.

There’s a Spanish saying: “Consejos vendo, pero para mi no tengo.” The means, lieterally, I’m selling advice, but I don’t have any for myself. He’s busy diagnosing faults in other people, but maybe he should look at himself and his own behavior, which is fracturing the Church and driving away faithful Catholics.

But progressives such as the Pope - and Obama _ are so convinced that they are morally in the right that thie never even occurs to them.