“The culture of abuse and cover-up is incompatible with the logic of the Gospel,” the pope wrote.

In another surprise decision, Pope Francis has decided to send Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta and Msgr. Jordi Bertomeu to Chile.

"I came to this world very humble and poor, and I want to die poor as well," said Bolivian cardinal-designate Toribio Ticona Porco.

Righteous call-outs should be patterned after Cardinal O’Malley’s rebuke of Pope Francis on sex abuse.

“I saw someone who was caring for someone, not worrying about if we are gay, straight, brown, white.”

Pope Francis is trying to ensure that those who elect his successor are humble men committed to “a church of the poor and for the poor.”