The cardinals welcomed this year’s Christmas address from their leader –a list of 15 "Ailments of the Curia" – with tepid applause and few smiles, AP reported. One of the sins from the list was the “disease” of feeling “immortal,” or “essential.” “Sometimes, [Officials of the Curia] feel themselves ‘lords of the manor’ [padroni in Italian] – superior to everyone and everything,” Pope Francis said in his annual Christmas greeting, according to Vatican Radio. The Pope also said he sees no reason for those in power in the Vatican to wear a “funeral face” all day long, whereas they're...
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