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The pope, of course, embodies the very division that he claims to deplore. He is dividing Catholics at the deepest possible level — from Catholic tradition itself. A “unity” rooted in heterodoxy is a sham.

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Ping

[rhinohunter]

...he has devoted much of his pontificate to undoing the post–Vatican II conservative retrenchment of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI

Ding...ding...ding..We have a winner!

[irishjuggler]

Alas, it’s pathological with him...

“However, Bergoglio did not heal the split in the Jesuit family. He made it worse with his inexperienced autocratic style. So deep was the division that one senior Jesuit wrote privately, on the eve of the papal election, that a Bergoglio papacy would be “a catastrophe” for the Church, concluding: “We have spent two decades trying to fix the chaos that the man left us.”
Newsweek, 2014
https://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/31/crisis-changed-pope-francis-279303.html

[cpt_dave]

Remember the old joke: “Hey, is the Pope Catholic?”. It’s no longer a joke.

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