But that's exactly what Francis does when it comes to traditional Catholics who merely wish to practice the faith of their fathers.
The Pope Francis Little Book of Insults
Francis has not said an ill word about Jews, Muslims, Protestants, atheists or homos; nor has he even made an attempt to convert any of them to the Catholic faith. The only people he speaks ill of is his fellow Catholics and those phantom, evil "capitalists".
BTW, I think some distinction must be made --- though I'll admit I don't often know how to make it --- between defaming individuals by name, and making a "little book of insults" why apply only to those who wince: to only those whom the shoe fits.
The very word "pharisee" came to us because Jesus had a couple of chapters of insults for pharisees -- and we underestimate the signiicance of the fact that they were His closest co-religioniss. In fact, of the all the sociological subgroups of First Century Judaism --- Essenes, Sadducees, Herodians, Zealots, --- it was the Pharisees who most gravitated in belief and practice to Jesus Himself. (You may want to dispute this, but look: they were a lot closer to Him, and He to them, than Herodians or Sadducees or Essenes for sure). I've often wondered why he laid into the Pharisees, and had NOTHING bad to say about the Samaritans or the Hellenists or the Romans, for instance.
I wonder if He felt a special obligation to preach first to the observant, those who were already immersed in holistic Jewish life, to go further and be perfect.
That may be Pope Francis' motivation. Is it possible? I am only wondering.