The 1980’s, 90’s, 00’s, until 2013 saw the Church recovering from the addiction to change, upheaval and loss of Catholic identity which created for the purveyors of this confusion a drunken euphoria.
St. John Paul II began the restoration of the great discipline of the Church and Pope Benedict brought even greater clarity to his common sense “renewal of the Church in continuity” as well as liturgical restoration and recovery of Catholic culture and customs.
Pope Francis as an affinity for the Church of the period of 1965 to 1978 roughly and has tried successfully to bring the Church backwards to this time period of loss of Catholic identity, culture, custom, clarity and confused disunity.
It appears more of a psychological need than a theological one although there is a theology and ideology involved.
I think we are so approaching the next conclave. Catholics born around 1970 and later are seeing for themselves in real time what happened to the Church beginning around 1965 until the death of St. Paul VI.
Currant cardinals are reliving the 1970’s either to their horror or delight.
My clairvoyant sense of things is that the good things about Pope Benedict’s magisterium will be rehabilitated and promoted as the way forward to recover from the current 1970’s morass.
I can’t believe that the current confusion, division, rancor, resentments and missteps created by the current occupant of chair of St. Peter is appreciated by the majority of cardinals eligible to vote in the upcoming conclave, even within those cardinals created by the current pope.
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the good news is that these double-knit dinosaurs will soon go to their "reward." The younger clergy does not appear to be buying into the "spirit" of Vatican II bilge and appear to desire to serve as Catholic priests rather than glorified social workers and purveyors of leftist indoctrination.
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