Once again it;'s this sickening pattern of equivocating language: deliberate, corruptly crafted ambiguity.
Bad as that is in terms of misleading the faithful and proliferating confusion of conscience, the one glimmer of hope --- argues DeSouza --- is that even the clerics furthest down in Francis' inside vest pocket, can't goose themselves into actually saying "Here we go: Communion for the divorced-remarried is now on the pastoral menu."
It's been said that though the Pope can't change Catholic Doctrine, he CAN OK pastoral casuistry and thus change Catholic culture, which is fully as bad as changing doctrine in practice.
It's hard to dispute that. But isn't it strange, really, that Pope Francis can keep speeding the car right up to the cliff, leave it teetering there, with gravel spraying and rockfalls clattering out all around it, but can't quite plunge it over the edge.
Read DeSouza for an interesting perspective on how the Holy Spirit's brakes--- His protection --- may be working in this case.
It's so essential not to give in to the Adversary's strategic objective, which is to get people to exit the teetering car.
Francis has already driven himself over the cliff. But the Holy Ghost will never let him drag the Ark with him.
“The Devil is like a mad dog tied by a chain..." (Padre Pio)