Is it possible that His Holiness in his role of primate of a universal church, was actually NOT thinking of the issues which drive you good RC as expressed here. I raise the possibility he was thinking of the developing world, as well as his own Latin America, where clergy in the episcopacy have too often become part of the ruling establishment caudillo class and clericalism was sometimes rampant. Didn't I read a biography article suggesting Bergoglio was tolerant of "slum" priests who bent the rules while Francis was Archbishop in Buenos Aires?

At the risk of channeling the sarcastic shtick of "Kurgan", stop complaining RC for after all there are no more 20 year old cardinal nephews in Rome and no Cardinal running a court and country for a young king, or priests and Pope attempting to depose and inspire rebellion against good Queen Bess. Be happy they just like bling and hearing the-ahem-swish of satin in front of a long mirror.