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Hapless Francis Wants to Make "This Church Different”“We must make this Church different. This is the challenge, for a different Church open to new elements,” Francis said at the October 9 opening of the Synodal Synods on Synodality.Contradicting Christ (“the world hates you and hated me first”, John 15), he came up with the idea that “the Church needs more friendship with the world.” Francis paraphrased “the risks” with his usual empty buzzwords: “formalism,” “intellectualism,” “the temptation of complacency.”Luxembourg Cardinal Hollerich, the synod’s relator general, confessed that he had “no idea” what kind of work instrument he will be writing,...