Posters accusing Pope Francis of attacking conservative Catholics appeared around Rome this weekend and were swiftly covered up by city authorities. In a letter released by the Vatican on Saturday, Francis told Archbishop Angelo Becciu that he would be the “exclusive spokesman” for the pope at the Order until elections are held for a new Grand Master in several months.. The posters were even more mysterious because sections of the text were written in the working class dialect Romanesco, spoken only in the Rome area. City authorities pasted white paper over them with the message “illegal advertising”, as they had been put up without authorization or the payment of a tax. But Father Antonio Spadaro, a Jesuit who is close to the pope, said in a tweet that they were a sign that Francis was doing a good job and therefore irritating many people.

Source: Huffington Post February 05, 2017 03:12 UTC