Pope Francis' Address to the Curia | National Catholic Reporter

Pope Francis' Address to the Curia | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: These maladies are not just confined to the Curia - the functionaries of any large and permanent bureaucracy carry the same diseases.  At least in America, we occassionaly turn all such appointed folk out and replace them with members of the alternate party.  The problem in the Curia, particularly with the CDF (aka the Holy Office or Inquisition) is that their delusions of grandeur lead to the silencing of cutting edge theology that may just be correct - or to ignoring advances in biology or archeology that force everyone else to rethink both scripture or doctrine, except them. It is also amazing that outside commentators are treating as wholy writ those things that come from Francis' every address, as wel as every homily.  While there are those left and right who moan on what the Pope says, I think the left is moaning about what is lacking based on what is. We do also find it interesting that the language Cardinal Kaspar uses mirrors Dr. Martin Luther King and Mayor Marion Barry. We like he call Francis a radical. We are radicals too and perhaps can have lunch.  As for Benedict, his hermaneutic of discontinuity or reform comes in defense of St. John Paul II, who tried to fight all change at Vatican II and rolled back some of it.  Francis is finally going back the other way.  The left always hoped it would outlive the right and that appears to be happening, protests by Francis that he will be done in ten years nothwithstading.  Still, will the Curia receive the call any more directly than the brothers of the man on whose footsteps Lararus lived and died?  It is an intersting question - the key one for 2015 (as compelling as to whether someone who cam back from the dead can move them as well (and we know who that is).