Agreed.  I for one am relieved and encouraged that Papa Francesco has a Sicilian watching his back.  

In an age where the pope's enemies weld political stilettos and attempt to stick the pontiff between the ribs on the internet, it's reassuring to know that Francesco has come to this Vatican political knife fight with a fellow Jesuit who knows how to “to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.”

My Calabrian grandfather would have said of Spataro confronting the pope's detractors: 
"Peh la vucca pati." ["You will suffer by what your mouth has uttered."]  That would be Calabrian for "you will suffer the consequences." Bravo, Antonio!