The Pope: “Heads of the church have often been narcissists”
This time not from the mouth of babes, but from God’s representative on Earth himself, Pope Francis, here:
“Heads of the church have often been narcissists, flattered and thrilled by their courtiers… The court is the leprosy of the papacy.”
The church is instead “a community” of people, priests and bishops who “are at the service of the people of God,” especially the poor, the old and the young “crushed” by unemployment. “The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old.”
“Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity.”
