Pope Francis greets cardinals during an audience for Christmas greetings to the Curia in the Clementina hall at the Vatican December 22, 2014. REUTERS/Andreas Solaro/Pool
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican's top administrators would have been expecting an exchange of pleasantries at their annual Christmas meeting with Pope Francis on Monday.
Instead, he chose the occasion to issue a stinging critique, telling the priests, bishops and cardinals who run the Curia, the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, that careerism, scheming and greed had infected them with "spiritual Alzheimer's".
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