the pontiff revealing his long list of bad attitudes and behaviors he believes are ailing the church's central offices. here are just a few of hour favorites. feeling immortal, having spiritual alzheimer's, suffering from existential schizophrenia, and committing the terrorism of gossip. cnn's senior vatican analyst john allen is in rome with more for us this morning. john, good morning to you. the pope isn't holding back. what has been the response? >> well, randi, i think the response here in the vatican, inside that administrative bureaucracy known as the roman curia, has been a bit mixed. bear in mind pope francis was elected on a reform mandate. the papal election of march, 2013, was probably the most anti-establishment papal election of the last hundred years. he was put in office to break the cycle of scandal and managerial meltdown that had come to be associated with the police. and there are a lot of people inside the system who know it's