'But what is really alarming and dismaying is that the consecrated and commissioned shepherds of the Church, the bishops, have in such large numbers apparently easily forgotten the oath they first swore before their ordination to the priesthood and then at their episcopal consecration before all the people – and before God's Face.'
Cardinal Walter Brandmüller said that the cardinals were unable to engage in open dialogue with one another in consistory after Pope Francis instituted linguistic divides.