Yeah, people are celebrating these new norms, but all of this seems like another muddying of the waters by Francis, to my eyes.
Not every single thing has to be done from a position of “being pastoral”—in the sense of bending over backwards to accommodate people’s feelings.
Every so often the truly pastoral thing is to close the door and say, “You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.”
These new norms seem to be tailor made for accommodating charlatans just to avoid upsetting the people who buy into their bollocks.
It speaks to Pope Francis’s motivation to make decisions based on what will make him most popular with the largest number of people, rather than actually governing the church.
Yeah, people are celebrating these new norms, but all of this seems like another muddying of the waters by Francis, to my eyes.
Not every single thing has to be done from a position of “being pastoral”—in the sense of bending over backwards to accommodate people’s feelings.
Every so often the truly pastoral thing is to close the door and say, “You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.”
These new norms seem to be tailor made for accommodating charlatans just to avoid upsetting the people who buy into their bollocks.
It speaks to Pope Francis’s motivation to make decisions based on what will make him most popular with the largest number of people, rather than actually governing the church.