And who knew that Bergoglio's election would precipitate a crisis in the Catholic Church between traditionalists and progressives that I too would get caught up in?
Pope Francis has a thing about stuffy traditionalists. I've met my fair share of condescending, superior, clergy who make you feel less than you are. I can sympathise. But rightly or wrongly he has turned his dislike of them into a papal crusade against all traditionalists. But it is the traditionalists who are holding the Church to its timeless values, faithful to the Gospel and tradition. And so the dominoes fall. It's bad enough when Christians are cancelled in the public square, but much worse when they are silenced by the Church.
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It's not clear yet how the struggle in Catholicism is going to pan out. The progressives are trying to use a clumsily engineered consultation process called the Synodal Way to spearhead the cause of feminists and gay activists, in their campaign to take over both Church and world and make the Church give up revelation and heaven and reflect secularism and utopia instead.
Pope Francis, always enigmatic, is keeping us all guessing about where the Vatican and papacy is going to put its weight.
Ping
“But there are good reasons for thinking (though this is not usually acknowledged or seen by Protestants) that protected by the Magisterium (the collective assessment of the work of the Holy Spirit promised by Jesus to protect and lead the Church over the years) the Catholic Church has the resources to see off this explosive cultural and philosophical revolution.”
Jesus also promised a Great Apostasy would befall the church before the end, and didn’t promise at all that the Holy Spirit would protect against that. There is promised to always be some faithful remnant, but a remnant is not the same thing as a faithful church-as-a-whole.
Jesus had a thing about stuffy Pharisees, but He never turned his dislike of them into a Messianic crusade against all Pharisees; He certainly had His share of Pharisaic followers, all the way to Saul of Tarsus and beyond, and He could tell the difference between a sheep and a goat. God help me, but Francis likes goats, so if you want to stay a sheep in the Kingdom you have to go somewhere else.
After the huge coverup of sexual predation on minors became obvious and entrenched many years ago, I left the Church. That’s the solution left out of the title. The Church has continued to cover up ever since so there’s no impetus to return.
Should be ‘Buns Up’ baby!