THE KETTLE CALLING THE POT BLACK OR IS IT THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK? AT ANY RATE THE CARDINAL PAPAL NUNCIO STUCK HIS FOOT INTO IT, TO MIX METAPHORS…

 This is Pope Francis Wednesday November 15 audience (today as I post this post) and just a second before His Holiness enters the square. As with most papal outdoor events, from audiences to Masses to the installation of new cardinals, no one, but a small number of faithful, mostly tourists, attends.

I use this example to show how out of touch our papal nuncio is as it concerns not just the USA, but South and Central America and Rome itself, where in the past 10 years there has been a tremendous decline in Catholics attending anything. The elephant in the room, though, is at the top of this falling pyramid. 

This is what Cardinal Pierre recently said in an interview, and it isn’t very dipolmatic or even true for the most part in the the southern USA which is conservative and traditional, but certainly in places like San Diego, Chicago and the northeast, it is true, where progressivism and implementing Pope Francis upside down Church is much more prevalent:

Cardinal Christophe Pierre gave an interview in America Magazine in which he said the bishops need to change their pastoral approach to evangelization.

The nuncio praised the 2007 Aparecida conference as a divinely inspired model of synodality that leads to better evangelization, which should be a guide for the U.S. bishops, whom he described as “struggling” to evangelize.

“We are in the Church at a change of epoch,” Cardinal Pierre said in the interview. “People don’t understand it. And this may be the reason why most of the young priests today dream about wearing the cassock and celebrating Mass in the traditional way.”

The nuncio said that “almost nobody” goes to church, religious sisters “have disappeared,” and “seminaries are now empty.”