My point was that Popes (and most old men) are incapable of understanding the world as it IS. They live thirty, forty, fifty years in the past. We won’t have a Pope who understands the situation in 2014 until about 2050.
Every apostate, homosexual-activist, Marxist bishop the Church is suffering with today was appointed by one of the saintly Popes of the past thirty years.
“Every apostate, homosexual-activist, Marxist bishop the Church is suffering with today was appointed by one of the saintly Popes of the past thirty years”
Will wise counsel from over 2000 years ago suffice?
“Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”—Matt. 15:14
So your point, I believe, is that the problems we are facing today is the result of a lack of “youthfulness” in our Church leaders. Your implication is that a younger person (a younger pope, perhaps?) would be able to understand the problems of this world better than someone older. Such a person would therefore tend to offer solutions that are more “acceptable” to the community at large.
That view, I’m afraid, is the one being advanced by the secular media and the modernists within the Church today; but it is a view that is soundly rejected by faithful Catholics who believe that our only hope is for the popes and bishops to follow the immutable dogmatic truths of the Church to the letter. One makes a serious error if they believe that the issue is one of finding a pope that is capable of “understanding the world”, either as it is or as one would hope it might be, and then adopting the teaching of the Church to fit that mold. The role of the pope is only to teach the never-changing truth so as to lead all men to salvation.
I do agree that it was the modernist popes of the past 50 years (two of whom have been declared “saintly” by the modernists of the Church) that made every single one the disgraceful episcopal and cardinal appointments that we witness today. There error in making those appointments, I would contend, was totally unrelated less to their lack of youthfulness; but rather, to their lack of holiness.