While Mormons are asked to, required to, strong-armed into ‘sustaining’, not questioning, obeying etc. every male above their own station (including it would seem the invisible worker bees in Church Administration) in the Vatican, Pope Francis recently delivered a stinging rebuke to those who govern, administer and manage the Catholic Church. And everyone but the Roman Curia is doing a slow clap.
Pope Francis publicly catalogued 15 ailments of the Catholic church administration and the high level officials who surround him. As a result Pope Francis has been lauded globally for his willingness to follow the example of Christ in raising hard questions for the religious elites. And I think his rebuke has global and theological relevance. With that in mind I have reworked his critique to fit the Mormon context:
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