I always am skeptical of saying anything with too much confidence, especially when a story seems taylor-made to my biases, and the idea of a pope sacking a bishop and wrecking a dicoese because it ordains traditioanalists confirms my worst suspicions Francis would rather have an empty church of 90 year olds like himself than a thriving C…
I always am skeptical of saying anything with too much confidence, especially when a story seems taylor-made to my biases, and the idea of a pope sacking a bishop and wrecking a dicoese because it ordains traditioanalists confirms my worst suspicions Francis would rather have an empty church of 90 year olds like himself than a thriving Church populated by younger Catholics who don't live in the 1970s.
It confirms my biases so strongly I avoid it. The only thing I will say is there has been grave damage to the Church with the idea that a bishop serves as an middle manager of the Holy Father, and that there needs to be a way to respect supreme and ordinary jurisdiction without turning a bishop into an at-will employee of the Pope. This is not the way to run a Church, and when a Bishop is removed, it should be something exceptionally rare, and publicly disclosed and defended by Rome.
I always am skeptical of saying anything with too much confidence, especially when a story seems taylor-made to my biases, and the idea of a pope sacking a bishop and wrecking a dicoese because it ordains traditioanalists confirms my worst suspicions Francis would rather have an empty church of 90 year olds like himself than a thriving Church populated by younger Catholics who don't live in the 1970s.
It confirms my biases so strongly I avoid it. The only thing I will say is there has been grave damage to the Church with the idea that a bishop serves as an middle manager of the Holy Father, and that there needs to be a way to respect supreme and ordinary jurisdiction without turning a bishop into an at-will employee of the Pope. This is not the way to run a Church, and when a Bishop is removed, it should be something exceptionally rare, and publicly disclosed and defended by Rome.