[ebb tide]

Ping

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Following in the hallowed steps of Microsoft: Embrace, enhance, extinguish.

[HIDEK6]

Duh.

I told them that in 1962.

[NorthMountain]

“Never break away from your roots to be modern, that's suicide,”

Says the guy who seems to hate anything resembing the Catholic Church as she existed before 1960.

[irishjuggler]

You know, every once in a while, I think this guy reads a speech that someone else wrote for him. Either that or he had some hidden motive to deliver this particular message to this particular audience. His whole shtick for the past 6 years has been to promote modernism, cast off traditions, advise listening for “signs of the times,” and advocate giving a free hand to the so-called “God of Surprises.” Not buying the idea that he suddenly sees any value in tradition.

[BlessedBeGod]

He says one thing one day, and the opposite the next.

He can't be trusted.

[Marchmain]

Is this the occasional bone he tosses to the rigid right-wing traditionalists?

[marshmallow]

The Amazon Synod is looming. Expect Bergoglio to say lots of "Catholic stuff" in the coming weeks as he attempts to burnish his Catholic bona fides before the do-do really hits the fan.