I don’t think he’s “closed the door.” He’s just gone silent on his objectives because his words were causing too much controversy and he was getting more push-back than he had expected. So now he comes out and says some completely anodyne things and everybody breathes s sigh of relief.
But if you look more closely, you will find that virtually all of those supposedly orthodox statements either included an ambiguous phrase or were followed by words that cast doubt on them. Plus he is bringing more and more radicals into the Vatican everybday, ignoring the Curia and hanging out with his private, heterodox “kitchen cabinet,” and letting himself be photographed now only when he is out ostentatiously kissing a leper or two or hugging a communist dictator.
That’s what I mean. The ambiguity of the pope guarantees the door is not closed to the merrymaking German preferences for these protestant changes and dispensations they seek.
They just want to accomplish their nefarious agenda with some high minded authorization in hand. I don’t believe that authorization will come, if the Bishops have anything at all to say about it. They have already voted it down and these good bishops and cardinals can but look around and see that even outside the Church, it is only the Marxists who are aligning with the provocative ambiguity and backing up the socialistic recommendations coming out of this Vatican.
We are being proven by our steadfast love and loyalty to the Holy Eucharist. Much else has gone wobbly.