“Francis will change nothing.”
At least some priests expect him to allow them to get away with a lot.
NKP_Vet, Francis does great harm with his so-called off-the-cuff confusing and thoughtless remarks. The doctrine of the Church will not change, but many of Francis’s acts and statements undermine it.
We call Francis a leftist because he announced at the beginning of his pontificate that he wants a church of the poor for the poor. This is reminiscent of “Christian Communists” Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day’s claim that the aim of Christianity is “to make the rich poor and the poor holy.” None of these objectives are in Scripture.
Francis’s positive view of socialism calls to mind Day’s endorsement and glorification of Castro and the Cuban Revolution. Francis has attacked “unbridled capitalism,” the free market, and “the tyranny of money.” Adam Shaw of Fox News wrote on December 4, 2013:
“Apart from the fact that there is no major nation practicing unfettered capitalism (like Obama, Francis loves attacking straw men) there is more real tyranny in socialist cesspools like Francis’ home of Argentina than in places where capitalism is predominant.
“In the document [Evangelii Gaudium] he rejects the free market and calls for governments to overhaul financial systems so they attack inequality. In doing so he shows himself painfully misguided on economics, failing to see that free markets have consistently lifted the poor out of poverty, while socialism merely entrenches them in it, or kills them outright.” (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/12/04/pope-francis-is-catholic-churchs-obama-god-help-us/)