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Francis in no mood to reach out to critics Pope Francis was not in a reconciliatory mood over the holiday season, John Allen observed at Cruxnow.com. During the Pope’s speech to the Curia, Allen pointed out, he accused some critics of doing the Devil’s work, which was “not exactly the tone of a leader for whom job number one is healing”. Then, on New Year’s Eve, “Francis warned Christians against being ‘narrow-minded’, succumbing to ‘sterile nostalgia’, and being ‘prisoners of an all-or-nothing attitude’.”
