vatican city pope francis issue sting new critique vatican top administration thursday say traitors stand way reform make change hard clean egypt sphinx toothbrush fourth year run francis use annual christmas greet roman catholic church central bureaucracy curia lecture assemble cardinals bishops department head need change reform rome like clean sphinx egypt toothbrush say quote 19th-century belgian churchman phrase evoke much laughter pope read fresco clementina hall vatican apostolic palace since election first latin american pope 2013 francis try reform italian-dominated curia bring church hierarchy close members enact financial reform guide scandals mark pontificate predecessor former pope benedict encounter resistance particularly departments close merge streamline francis say bureaucracy nerve center 1.2-billion-member church whose members entrust carry pope decisions part cliques plot francis call unbalance degenerate cancer lead self-referential attitude address thursday speak traitors trust entrust carry reform let corrupt ambition vainglory quietly let go say erroneously declare martyr system ... instead recite mea culpa latin fault francis cite specific examples last june vatican first auditor general resign suddenly late say force step discover irregularities vatican say spy superiors early month vatican bank deputy director fire circumstances explain july major shake-up vatican administration francis replace catholicism top theologian conservative german cardinal odds pontiff vision inclusive church francis say overwhelm majority curia members faithful competent saintly late separate meet lay vatican employees families francis ask forgiveness fail church officials speak hours funeral cardinal bernard law ex-archbishop boston resign disgrace cover years sexual abuse children priests whose name become byword scandal catholic church pope say foes make reform vatican hard clean sphinx toothbrush