I have faith that the next pope will make some serious corrections to the current pope’s magisterium especially has it regards clarity in doctrine and morals as well as a return to the teaching authority of the pope and bishops in union with him without politicizing the magisterium through worldly, political processes and lobbies, euphemistically called synodality.
But let’s look at Pope Francis’ legacy that needs to continue.
What I am writing should be couched within my opinion that Pope Francis’ liturgical style should not continue and the next pope needs to be more pastoral to “trads” and those who desire the older liturgical forms of the Catholic Mass and Sacraments. Christ has to be first, not a particular form of ecclesiology that has political and social elements concerning who does what, a kind of outdated, politicized DEI!
But this is what I see as good and needing ongoing promotion:
1. Pope Francis’ emphasis on pastoral care of people but with clarity of truth telling and strong medicine and sometimes radical surgery and amputations in the field hospital of the Church—a great metaphor that needs its full impact!
2. Pope Francis’ emphasis on devotions and devotional lives of Catholics, especially devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, which includes adoration and Benediction, devotion the the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Rosary and a whole array of popular devotions of various countries with a inculturated ethos.
3. Pope Francis’ emphasis on the devil and evil and the temptations of the devil through worldly processes and ideologies
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Well, those “good things” were lost in the midst of his Crazy Town and corrupt, politically focused papacy. He can’t go fast enough so the healing can begin. Honest history will be brutal to Francis, the Joe Biden of Catholicism
TJM, you are always so positive and spirit fill, an icon for faith, hope and love. I especially love how you avoid politicizing you POV and stick with the universal truths of Catholicism devoid of political pundancy …
Thank you Father McDonald for recognizing that. When the current Pope stops politicizing the Faith and crushing Faithful Catholics, I will be at peace. Why doesn’t he “accompany” TLM folks, show them mercy and not show his “vinegar face” to them? I guess St. Catherine of Siena would be crushed by today’s papacy, no?
I mostly agree with you, Father.
At the same time, TJM's POV shouldn't be discounted.
For all the good he has done, he's created an equal if not greater amount of ambiguity relative to the "Blueprint for Life" that he should have been championing with unwavering clarity. Additionally, TC is contrary to his predecessor's POV and has set, among other examples, the stage for an avalanche of "executive orders" undoing the former's work/mandates until his successor does the same. Truth, credibility, continuity and unity will suffer, factionalism will prevail. Perhaps this will become his defining legacy.
ByzRus,
Well said. Faithful Catholics have suffered immensely under this Papacy. All of this talk about "accompaniment and going to the peripheries" are just buzzwords. Otherwise, Francis would reach out to the TLM faithful whom he has pushed to the peripheries and has shunned them instead of accompanying them. This Papacy has conducted a Reign of Terror against these Catholics. Basta!
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