Badilla: Catholics Are Not Obligated to Agree with Francis' Scandals
In this context, a phrase about Francis' behaviour printed in numerous books is memorable: "Bergoglio puts the blinker to the left, but then turns right, or vice versa".
Badilla notes, however, that a driver who sends ambiguous and incoherent messages to other road users causes "great disorientation".
He mentions Francis' recent "surprise" when he stopped at the luxurious apartment of the unrepentant Italian back-street abortionist Emma Bonino.
For Badilla, it is still not clear what Francis meant by turning a simple private pastoral gesture "into a studied little set-up for the cameras".
Francis, "who says he is as 'naive' as he is 'cunning', has chosen the ambiguous path of saying but not saying, almost as if he wanted to provoke uproar and turmoil".
He does this by using his usual formula, now applied in dozens and dozens of circumstances: "I say it, but I don't say it", "I say it because I was told it", "I say it because a wise man told me so, a student told me so, an old woman told me so, a nun told me so...".
But today, for "many Catholics", it is necessary and urgent to confess their disorientation and confusion publicly, "as an unquestionable right", Badilla insists.
It is allowed to say "I do not share many of Francis' personal opinions, some of which are damaging to the image of the Church and to the Petrine ministry", without being insulted as "indietrist", "traditionalist" or even "pre-conciliar".
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