EVEN THE ULTRA PROGRESSIVE ROBERT MICKENS OF LACROIX KNOWS WE MUST CRITICIZE/CRITIQUE A POPE, LIKE FRANCIS, AND HIS “DARK SIDE”

You can read Mickens excellent critique HERE. It may be behind a pay wall.

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Any post-operative pain and discomfort Francis is experiencing right now will feel like balm for the soul if and when he finally decides to confront the latest depressing developments regarding the Church's never-ending sex abuse crisis.Actually, Francis -- who has been anything but decisive or consistent in the way he's managed the Vatican's response to the crisis -- has a bit of explaining to do himself. A week before he was taken to hospital, the pope sent a brief, but disturbing video message from his apartment in Santa Marta to Catholics gathered for a conference at the Marian shrine in Aparecida, Brazil.

Promoting the work of Marko Rupnik

At one point in that video -- which was made public by Vatican News -- the pope walked across the room and pointed out a contemporary icon of the Madonna and Child prominently displayed on the wall. It was an icon by Jesuit artist Marko Rupnik, the Slovenian priest who was restricted from public ministry and his artistic endeavors some months ago after he was found guilty of sexually and spiritually abusing several women religious."Was this an error or a provocation?" asked the Rome-based journalists that manage the influential Church information website "Il Sismografo". It's hard to believe that the pope, who is no fool and who certainly knows Rupnik and his saga extremely well, didn't realize this would be polemical.

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