The third Mass of the Novemdiales, the nine days of mourning for the late Pope Francis, was celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday afternoon and presided over by Cardinal Baldassare Reina.
He wants a clone of Pope Francis to continue the deconstruction of the Catholic Church to make it something different. He wants no changes to the direction of the Church that Pope Francis has initiated.
Cardinal Reina must have been reacting to Cardinal Müller who is quoted in the New York Times as rebuking Pope Francis as divisive, like “all dictators,” “That is his style, to divide,” Cardinal Müller told the NYT. “All dictators are dividing.”
There are many who would like to be flies on the wall of the Conclave. Pope Francis' pontificate has polarized even the cardinals and the entire Church.
Someone will need to bring the inner healing that Pope Benedict desired and Pope Francis reversed.
If Pope Francis could reverse Pope Benedict, another pope can certainly reverse Pope Francis. Pope Francis has initiated that process were previous popes can be canceled, including now Pope Francis.
Those of Pope Francis' school of thought and leadership know this and they want to stop what Pope Francis started so that Pope Francis won't be canceled.
I think the next Pope, even if progressive, will try to be a healer.
But the Cardinals in the Conclave better fasten their seat belt because this Conclave is going to be a bumpy ride for them and maybe a long conclave. Time will tell.
4 comments:
Fr. AJM,
Appreciate the post. I'm praying for this conclave, that the cardinals will realize the Church should not reprise the same mistakes of the 1970s and 2010s with the next pope, and will find a man zealous for the Lord and His Church, to govern justly and fairly, rather than by dictate and cover-up; to teach clearly, without the need for spin artists to clean up repeatedly from impromptu press conferences and a-synodal DDF declarations; to sanctify, with a focus on bringing each person closer to God and His Church, without accusing evangelists of proselytization, or God forbid, actively discouraging people from becoming Catholic.
Setting aside topics we could debate for weeks, months, or years (perhaps even have yet another synod about!), the practical problems facing the Church, such as the financial sinkhole of the Vatican getting ever deeper, or the decade-long slide in the number of seminarians, hopefully serve as a signal of the Church having gone down the wrong path. I pray that God tells the cardinals how to get things back on a better path--and that they listen. And I hope they don't listen to that ever-laughable assertion that the next pope can't undo the prior pope's initiatives as "irreversible."
Nick
Hopefully, the majority of the good cardinals will conclude that this must never happen again.
Tagle sounds like a campaign add in November. I hope the campaigners leave as cardinals.
From Kwasniewski on FB.
I am pleased to publish today an incisive essay by a new guest contributor to Tradition & Sanity, Sebastian Morello. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have.
« Pope Francis did a comprehensive job, by overseeing a papacy of contradictions, of undermining the authority and credibility of his office. But on account of this, we can now consequently move to a more traditional conception of the papacy and its role, and begin to leave behind the hyperpaplism—near papolatry, even—that gradually emerged after the Great Schism and eventually transmuted into the monstrous caricature of itself that it incrementally became since the Napoleonic age.... Under Francis, this centuries-long degeneration of the papal role reached its ultimate stage, as the office was utilised to damage what it exists to conserve, namely the Church’s holy tradition. »
Good article, what I could read of it
https://www.traditionsanity.com/p/in-thanksgiving-for-a-papacy-of-contradictions?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ9A-lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpdmaGmfJZPXX3uNtnhWOCXAb-JvaDdf8ms-RS_M9WQRtK3aMKrTrXdKDgr9_aem_umbXOejIyEqFps5_3z66uQ
Here are some words of wisdom the Cardinals should reflect on during the Conclave:
Limited to its essential tasks. The head of the Church is not the Pope, but Christ. Let the new Pontiff's motto be John the Baptist's words about Jesus, “He must increase, I decrease.”
May it be a minimal Papacy. A Papacy like the Minimal State theorized by liberal philosopher Robert Nozick, that is, limited to its essential tasks. Few things, but done well. Not only because the vain loudness of an overwhelming Papacy, and an idolatrous and unbelieving Papolatry, disturb my ears. Especially because “the head of the Church is Christ, not the Pope” (Pope John XXIII). Because “the figure of the Pope is praised too much. One risks falling into the cult of personality” (Pope John Paul I). Because “the Pope is not an oracle, he is infallible only on very rare occasions” (Pope Benedict XVI). Let us begin again with the beautiful Gregorian title “Servus servorum Dei.”
May it be a Papacy of service that of the next pope. No more personalism, narcissism, despotism. Let the servant of the servants of God put himself at the service of the recovery of Catholicism, in France and elsewhere now evident, or at least avoid hindering it. The 18,000 French people (mostly adults, a sacramental boom) who got baptized on Easter night did not do it for Bergoglio, they did it in spite of a Bergoglio who in Abu Dhabi signed the indifferentist declaration in which the uselessness of baptism was made clear. May the new pope's motto be John the Baptist's words about Jesus, “He must increase, I decrease.”
Labels: Sede Vacante 2025, The 2025 Conclave, The Death of Francis
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The fact that Cardinal Tagle was fired for incompetence--fired for incompetence, in the prior administration, which was not known for competence--should alone be disqualifying. Let alone his serenade of the Marxist anthem, "Imagine."
Nick
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