In the interview I posted with Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Washington, he says something that resonates with so many faithful Catholics:
"An archbishop said to me a couple years ago — he's an East Coast archbishop, he was ordained in the early '70s — he said, 'I've never seen the church this divided in my life.' And this is a man who lived through the craziness in the late '60s and '70s in the church.
"And I would agree to that. I think there is a division.
“I believe the church is divided because we have people who want to compromise — and I’m talking about bishops — fundamental principles of morality that the church has remained very clear and steadfast on."
We all know that orthodox, faithful clergy and laity have decried the ambiguity, missteps, polarization and confusion of the current papacy. Bishop Daly indicates this implicitly in the last paragraph above.
If Pope Francis had been like Pope Benedict, humbly embracing what Pope Benedict gave to him including the trappings of the papacy from the first moment Pope Francis I first stepped out onto that loggia that faithful night, would the Church, meaning the clergy and laity be weathering this current nightmare of a storm, tossing the Barque of Peter as though in a hurricane, have been more united and clearer in our Catholic identity which Popes John Paul II and Benedict helped to recover in no small measure?
Because we are so divided or polarized by Pope Francis' spirit of compromise with Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, Agnostics, the United Nations and Secular ideologies, Pope Francis has created a situation that will lead to schism. And quite frankly, I wonder if this is what His Holiness wants?
2 comments:
Yes it is what he wants, and this is why I do not use titles when referring to Francis.
If I were the good bishop, I would get 24/7 protection.The gay mafia in the Church will be out to get him for he is speaking truth to power!
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