Ping
The money quote: “Pope Francis does not want to avoid conflicts or make them useless. On the contrary, he wants to win them. “
To understand the end, one must always understand the beginning...
“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.””
https://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/31/crisis-changed-pope-francis-279303.html
My feeling is that no one knows this pope, and that’s why there is so much second guessing of his motives.
The pope himself seems to know very little about his flock, and cares even less.
When he is gone, his legacy will be gone, because he seems to have no legacy.
When asked to clarify, he makes no attempt at doing so.
He confuses everyone around him, thus appears tone confused himself.
I am guessing he is just a very sad man — sad about everything, including himself, and particularly himself.