[ebb tide]

While Jorge Bergoglio is a Catholic in good standing, the Church is in grave distress.

[dsc]

“While Jorge Bergoglio is a Catholic in good standing, the Church is in grave distress.”

So, you don’t accept the analysis of scholars who hold that he is not a Catholic in good standing?

[Maris Crane]

AGREED.

But it will change and it will survive.

Even if it is led by the loyal African hierachy.