What Is Behind Francis' Fury Against the "Ecclesiastical Career"?
During an audience with the Famiglia Calasanziana on 8 November, Francis said:
"Your founder, from a wealthy family, probably destined for an 'ecclesiastical career' - a term that repels me and should be abolished - who came to Rome with tasks of a certain level, did not hesitate to change the plans and prospects of his life in order to dedicate himself to the street children he met in the city".
The Vatican journalist Luis Badilla is surprised: "But Bergoglio himself is also the fruit of a (sometimes planned) 'ecclesiastical career'."
In a commentary on 5 December he writes: "Why this language and anger? Should a normal and correct expression be abolished, but where? From the dictionary?" And: "If it is so repugnant to Francis, why does he use it?"
Once again, instead of speaking with moderation and precision, he opted for an almost scandalous outburst, Badilla analyses.
The expression 'ecclesiastical career' has no malicious meaning, unless one deliberately wants to give it that …More