[metmom]

Not necessarily.

Vatican 2 paved the way for this and from what I see, Francis is the reaping in the whirlwind, what Vatican 2 sowed in the wind.

IOW, Francis was the logical outcome and full fruition of what was put in place decades ago.

And the very fact that V2 got put into place shows that it goes back even further than that.

[onedoug]

You don’t think the current Pope “deposed” Benedict?

I sure do.