This represents a shocking inability to think on the part of the Pope. Perhaps he’s playing chess, and we’re going to discover how all this illogical propaganda is playing into some great move he’s making. But right now he looks like a simple panderer to the left.
Hard to believe that Benedict stepped aside for this guy.
Occams Razor - no great plot afoot....
Not that hard to believe when you realize global fascists and communists are making their move.
All the institutions are to be compromised, including the Republican party and the Papacy.
It is not just the Poope. Remember that the Pope is elected by the College of Cardinals. What does this say about them and the leadership of the Church as a whole. I see a serious schism in the making.
I posted elsewhere that I thought that the Pope is actually a bit senile and that not even he knows what he’s going to say when he opens his mouth. It just seems to be a scrambled rehash of the leftist sentiments of his youth, all mixed together and at the same time, all going in every direction.
I used to think he had a conscious plan to destroy the Church, but I think now that he is a confused old man, definitely being used by others who play on his old man’s vanity. He’s dangerous, of course, because interested observers in the press and politics seize on whatever part of his ramblings they like in order to use those phrases in advancing their cause. They’re using the prestige of prior, intelligent popes to support Francis’ irrational statements.
I remember reading discussions in Spanish language blogs about what the procedures would be if a pope was determined to be senile or incompetent for some cause related to that. I wondered about it at the time, but maybe they knew something (through Latin American gossip) that the rest of the world didn’t.