2017 has shown it again. Pro-Christendom stance, and even key points of Catholic doctrine, are being repudiated or undermined by Pope Francis’ Vatican while all but a tiny handful of the world’s cardinals and bishops look on with either fulsome praise or a sorry silence that bespeaks at best false prudence and at worst cowardice.
The Roman Curia – and thus, increasingly, the entire Catholic Church – is now labouring under the iron-fisted rule of an ostensibly humble, merciful and smiling Pontiff who has adopted the same media-savvy, Janus-faced, autocratic style of populist governance that he observed admiringly as a Peronista youth in Argentina.
Pope Francis seems to think he can best please Christ by pleasing the World, thereby neglecting the Gospel’s warnings of a deep and ineluctable tension between the two. The politically correct mould into which Papa Bergoglio is trying to squeeze Christ’s Church leads him to downplay or even disastrously relativize Christ’s moral absolutes in …More