PP wonders what Francis' has strong reactions within his own church.  Hardness of heart is endemic. Luke 16 with its cynical ending that someone rising from the death won't convince others to hear the cry of the poor. Many RCs buy the insurance policy of eternal life (that they will make it into heaven, not hell), not the social message of caring for the least ones here.  No surprise at resistance to Francis' symbolic outreach to the least ones. Yet, Francis has only been symbolic not substance in any serious change. Francis can't even get the clerical sexual abuse crisis under control.  Even the symbols are too much, though.