text: To me, it is clear that Francis is referring to prelates that have the same mindset of you.  That is, not knowing that the church must reform itself to survive.  Eventually, those that do not grasp this growth and reformation will become extinct.  The church will reform against all the railings of the conservatives that tell us the church can't change...Jesus set everything in stone!  Not true today and never was true.  If, as the church teaches, you believe that scripture is ever revealing, we must look at ourselves...because we are the ones who change, not God.  But as Francis said, the bad prelates, like you, find refuge in tradition...the branches need to be pruned to have new, healthy growth.  I see those with your mindset as needed to be pruned o that the church can grow in the spirit of Christ.