prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security. I do not want a Church concerned with being at the centre and which then ends by being caught up in a web of obsessions and procedures.”
He is wiser than given credit for.
It’s stylistic only. He crushes his opponents, ruthlessly.
Orthodoxy is dead. Why remain Catholic? In 20 years we’ll be just like the Episcopals.