Paul KeenanPope Francis is encountering a growing resistance to his reforms of the universal Church from among members of the curia, a cardinal has warned.
The warning has come from Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga who heads up the Pontiff’s council of eight prelates charged with overseeing reforms ordered by the Pontiff, and were reportedly made on April 8 as the cardinal addressed a gathering of provincials of the Order of Friars Minor in Florida, USA.
Referencing the Pope’s popularity among ordinary Catholics around the world, Cardinal Maradiaga said there is now a parallel opposition to the Pontiffs actions.
"We have to be prepared,” Cardinal Maradiaga told the provincials, “since this beautiful but strange popularity is beginning to strengthen adherences, but equally to awaken deaf opposition not only in the old curia, but in some who are sorry to lose privileges in treatment and in comforts.” He went on to relate how one cardinal, in considering the current papacy said, “we made a mistake” in relation to the election of Pope Francis.