Posted on 10/12/2023 4:57:56 PM PDT by ebb tide
Francis “over-reliance" on the [declining] Jesuits is "unhealthy”, writes former Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput on ThePublicDiscourse.com (October 9).
He goes on to say that Francis is "intolerant of even respectful disagreement", that he can often seem "mean-spirited", that his complaints about the Church in the United States are "insulting and uninformed", that his [unambiguous] ambiguity on matters of doctrine is creating confusion and division in the Church "when we already have a surfeit of both."
Chaput anticipates the ultramontanists' attack against him, "If saying these things is ‘disloyal,’ then so is the truth", noting the irony that Francis advocates "synodality" but is "the most authoritarian pope in decades.”
The importance of the Petrine office is vital to the Church, he explains, “so long as Peter remains faithful to the Word of God and consistent Catholic teaching.”
Bishops are more than simply franchise managers of Catholicism Inc. They have a duty of obedience to the Holy See in all things "true to the faith but they have "no obligation of unthinking agreement.”
Chaput analyses that they often avoid candour out of cowardice or, allegedly more often, out of “prudent fear” of scandalising the faithful and causing division.
But: “At this point, we’re well past worrying about such things. The papacy and the Vatican will look very different in the decades ahead whatever we do, if only because of finances.”
Frank does not tolerate intolerance.
Is a good but mild-mannered man, not looking for a fight. Actually coming from him, it shows how bad things have gotten.
With the current Pope and his associates and allies in the Vatican abandoning traditional Catholic faith, they are now finding that the traditional Catholic faithful are abandoning them.
Not my pope.
Waiting patiently for the Vatican to again proclaim the Catholic faith.
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