What about the Pope? It seems to me he’s a monkey wrench in all this kind of talk. Dunno.
... my excuse for commenting? My uncle converted to Catholicism. I always thought it was because he was a history teacher ... plus he married a Catholic !
Well, I’m just stirring up trouble, and I admit it.
That's the great thing about the article. The point is that Catholics are being Catholic in spite of the Pope. He's not like a new CEO who can come in and reorganize everything. He is coming into an organization that was thousands of years old before he was born. Whatever he may think otherwise, he has absolutely no authority to change anything of substance, and if he so much as tries it is null and void on its face.
It's not the Pope's Church. It is Christ's Church, and if the Pope does a bad job minding the store then either we can replace him, or God will take care of that for us.
There's a saying in Italian: "If the Pope dies, we'll make another one". :)