The parallels between the political and the religious machinery are uncannily alike.
I’m not surprised, but then again it seems you and I are on the same page. Most seem to think Francis is an anomaly.
” Instead, “it is a source of objective inspiration for the deeply personal process of making decisions”.”
So the discovery of natural law through reason is replaced by “objective inspiration” mitigated (or vitiated) by the “personal process of making decisions”.
It would seem to be that when we can know natural law by reason its application is through Divine Law through revelation. Instead, we have trivial inspiration replacing reason and Divine Law. Either way we are left with an insipid theology.