Like the Energizer bunny, this story continues to go .... ping!
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Well, unfortunately, this is the sort of problem I’d feared with the election of a Cardinal from the Western hemisphere.
What I find distressing is the inability to recognize (or refusal to acknowledge) that this action also had other effects, effects that might not be so benign. I have argued that among those effects was the sowing of new confusion about the binding character of liturgical laws in general, about the influence of a pope on good order in the community, and so on.
This whole matter should have been handled differently from the start.
Bingo.
Obedience and true humility go hand in hand, always. "Humility" without obedience may not be humility.
What I find distressing is the inability to recognize (or refusal to acknowledge) that this action also had other effects, effects that might not be so benign. I have argued that among those effects was the sowing of new confusion about the binding character of liturgical laws in general, about the influence of a pope on good order in the community, and so on. Now, to be sure, there are sound answers to these questions, but they are not easily offered in the middle of the Triduum and splashed across secular news stories and blogs. This whole matter should have been handled differently from the start.
This Pope just continues to shake what needs shaking up....happens when the sheep and goats are penned together.