Cardinals Weirded Out By How Spiritual Brush With Dying Made Pope

VATICAN CITY—Saying the pontiff’s abrupt change in persona had put all of them on edge, cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church confirmed Friday that they had been weirded out by how spiritual the pope had turn out to be following his current brush with dying. “Ever since Pope Francis received out of the hospital, he’s been just about nonstop with all this Jesus stuff,” mentioned Italian cardinal Camillo Ruini, including that whereas Francis had at all times been fairly easygoing earlier than his bout with bilateral pneumonia, a newfound preoccupation with everybody’s eternal souls was making him very anxious to be round. “It’s at all times ‘God’ this, ‘the afterlife’ that. I get that nearly dying is frightening, but it surely’s an enormous bummer to listen to him raving about how he has an obligation to the church like some form of spiritual wack job. I imply, I even noticed him praying the opposite day. I requested what he was doing, and he simply mentioned one thing about this being his ‘chosen path,’ no matter meaning. Hopefully he’ll transfer on along with his life and get again to regular quickly, as a result of I’m unsure I can stand one other considered one of his massive spiels in regards to the devotion of Saint Joseph.” Cardinal Ruini went on to say it was particularly disappointing as a result of Pope Benedict XVI had really actually chilled out about faith after his well being took a flip again in 2013.