additional excerpt:
The final report—not a magisterial document, but expressive of the synod’s will—was published with the full approval of the Pope, and is by any measure “conservative” in nature. The statement even quotes from a 2003 Vatican document—signed by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and approved by St. John Paul II—which is quite strong in its teaching against homosexual conduct and same-sex unions. Further, Pope Francis’s concluding speech to the synod not only quotes an outstanding address by Pope Benedict on the teaching authority of the Church, but rebukes those who forsake the Cross and “bow down to a worldly spirit, instead of purifying it and bending it to the Spirit of God”; and of employing byzantine language which misleads the faithful.
Claims from alarmists that Francis was about to “rock” the Church, and repudiate the legacy of his predecessors, now look dated and overhyped.
Don’t throw ridiculous assurances my way.
That such talk was even on the table at all is damnable.
Pope Francis has made powerful enemies. Anyone doing a search on Pope Francis and Vatican corruption will see why. First Pope I am aware to take on the corruption and outright theft that has been going in the Vatican for centuries.
Brave man, good man imo. Walks the talk more than any Pope I can remember.