Pope Francis accused bishops and cardinals who disagree with him of “ legalism,” “closed hearts,” “blinkered viewpoints,” judging "sometimes with superiority and superficiality," lacking “understanding,” unable to “discern,” cowardice in “burying their heads in the sand,’ “a nasty spirit in order to sow division,” and psychologically “born from something missing, from trying to hide one’s own sad dissatisfaction behind a kind of armor.” He warns that they are a “cancer of the Church” in pursuit of glory rooted in “the logic of ambition and power.”
Regardless of what a Catholic thinks about the issues, these cruel ad hominem attacks are fanning the flames of the pope's uncivil war against those who cite Jesus' words (Luke 16:18 "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”) and constant - until now - magisterial teaching as their defense.