Pope Francis marked the second anniversary of his election with renewed criticism of the Roman Curia and the announcement of an extraordinary jubilee year.The two are intertwined. The jubilee is a direct appeal to believers in the face of a clerical opposition that sees the Church as a border checkpoint with officials dictating who can be admitted and who must be kept out, rather than the Pope’s vision of the Church as a field hospital caring for every suffering individual. “It’s the last existing [royal] court in Europe,” said the Pope, referring to the Curia in his interview with Valentina Alazraki for the Mexican television company Televisa. “This has to change,” he added. He explained the need for the Curia to stop behaving like an absolute power an