IS POPE FRANCIS INTENTIONALLY BECOMING THE MOST DIVISIVE POPE IN MODERN HISTORY OR ARE OTHERS USING HIS INCOHERENCE TO FURTHER DIVIDE CATHOLICS?

 The New York Times has an article today on Pope Francis rattling the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church which you can read in full by pressing this sentence.

First, the New York Times reports on an interview of Cardinal Francis George who adds his so-called conservative voice to the other cardinals raising concern about Pope Francis' incoherence:

But now Francis’ pontificate has entered a more delicate phase, with some bishops asking whether he has a coherent vision of where he wants to take the church and a plan for how to get there.

“He says wonderful things,” Cardinal George said about Francis in an interview on Sunday, “but he doesn’t put them together all the time, so you’re left at times puzzling over what his intention is. What he says is clear enough, but what does he want us to do?”

Cardinal George, who is 77 and being treated for cancer, remains a voting cardinal until age 80 and says he would like to travel to Rome to see Francis: “I’d like to sit down with him and say, Holy Father, first of all, thank you for letting me retire. And could I ask you a few questions about your intentions?”

Then Father Thomas Reese, SJ a contributor to the ultra-left NCR, (National Chismatic Reporter) continues to use Pope Francis to divide the bishops of the Church.

First left-leaning Catholics in the media as well as the secular media, such as the New York Times, portrayed Pope Francis as the anti-Pope Benedict. Pope Benedict basically was shown as a pariah.

Now the same shameful medias are portraying the bishops appointed by Pope Benedict as pariahs who yet have saviors appointed by Pope Francis, save Archbishop Cupich, new Archbishop of Chicago. 

One way to render the Roman Catholic Church as useless as liberal Protestant denominations such as the Episcopal Church is to divide and conquer it. Then the Church can simply become a minion of the government and its secular ideologies while the Church simply becomes an NGO, a non-government organization providing services to the poor and advocating for liberal secular causes. 

This is what the shameful, divisive Fr. Reese says in the same New York Times article:

The Rev. Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and senior analyst for National Catholic Reporter, a liberal, independent news outlet, said in an interview between the sessions that this group of bishops was shaped by the popes who appointed them, John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

“There is no bishop who is standing up and being the real leader of a Francis faction,” Father Reese said. “They grew up in conservative families, went to conservative seminaries and have been told not to talk to theologians who are creative because they’ve been labeled heretical. Now Francis is saying, let’s go in a different direction and let’s have a discussion. The last two pontificates, there was no room for discussion, and this makes them nervous and confused.”

Welcome back to the divisive 1970's that both Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict tried heroically to lead the Church away from. 

Pope Francis wants to lead the Church forward, to walk forward as he proclaimed at his first public Mass in the Sistine Chapel after his election. However, it appears that we are going backwards to the most despicable period of Church history in the 20th Century, the 1970's. Does Pope Francis really want to lead us backwards with His Holiness' incoherence?

It is said that the last real vacation that Cardinal Bergoglio had was in 1974 and that was with his Jesuit brothers. He has never really traveled. He has never been to the USA. Has His Holiness really left the 1970's Argentina and its Peronist populism and political divisiveness based on the cult of the personality?

God spare us!Saint John Paul II, pray for us!