It's tempting to read a lot from the details of this controversy. Steubenville has "...significantly more priests per capita than any other diocese in Ohio" (according to prior Pillar article "Bradley Out as Steubenville Administrator.") Those "extra" priests could be distributed across the entire Columbus diocese. But, although Columbus…
It's tempting to read a lot from the details of this controversy. Steubenville has "...significantly more priests per capita than any other diocese in Ohio" (according to prior Pillar article "Bradley Out as Steubenville Administrator.") Those "extra" priests could be distributed across the entire Columbus diocese. But, although Columbus' +Bp. Fernandes doesn't want a merger, it seems other parties do.
+Cardinal Pierre (close to PF) has taken a firm hand dealing with his (mostly) conservative American bishops, and he was sent (and promoted) by a pope who openly dislikes Americans.
In America Pope Francis has removed (+Strickland, +Torres), retired unduly or early (Chaput, countless others) or attempted to humiliate (+Burke) many ordinaries, while promoting to Cardinal (+McElroy, +Cupich, +Gregory et al.), even at times even unduly (+Tobin), or otherwise supporting (Fr. James Martin SJ, Sr. Jeannine Gramick) those in the Church who share his progressive, disruptive and heterodox preferences regarding dogma and governance.
And now the news (credible rumors) of a possible further restriction on the Traditional Latin Mass, if not its actual abolishment.
I think it's common for people in their final years, as they weigh the balance of their lives, to become more loving, merciful, and patient, perhaps excessively so. Not Pope Francis, it seems. He runs the race in the manner of a revolutionary when the revolution is threatened. He governs like a man who does not doubt for a second the rectitude of his course in life, but who nevertheless aims to ram through changes that, had he more time, he might have sought to do more subtly or patiently.
+ Fernandes is very much in favor of the merger. He is ecclesially connected at the hip to Cardinal Pierre after reporting to him directly at the papal nunciature in Washington DC from 2019-2022.
It's tempting to read a lot from the details of this controversy. Steubenville has "...significantly more priests per capita than any other diocese in Ohio" (according to prior Pillar article "Bradley Out as Steubenville Administrator.") Those "extra" priests could be distributed across the entire Columbus diocese. But, although Columbus' +Bp. Fernandes doesn't want a merger, it seems other parties do.
+Cardinal Pierre (close to PF) has taken a firm hand dealing with his (mostly) conservative American bishops, and he was sent (and promoted) by a pope who openly dislikes Americans.
In America Pope Francis has removed (+Strickland, +Torres), retired unduly or early (Chaput, countless others) or attempted to humiliate (+Burke) many ordinaries, while promoting to Cardinal (+McElroy, +Cupich, +Gregory et al.), even at times even unduly (+Tobin), or otherwise supporting (Fr. James Martin SJ, Sr. Jeannine Gramick) those in the Church who share his progressive, disruptive and heterodox preferences regarding dogma and governance.
And now the news (credible rumors) of a possible further restriction on the Traditional Latin Mass, if not its actual abolishment.
I think it's common for people in their final years, as they weigh the balance of their lives, to become more loving, merciful, and patient, perhaps excessively so. Not Pope Francis, it seems. He runs the race in the manner of a revolutionary when the revolution is threatened. He governs like a man who does not doubt for a second the rectitude of his course in life, but who nevertheless aims to ram through changes that, had he more time, he might have sought to do more subtly or patiently.
+ Fernandes is very much in favor of the merger. He is ecclesially connected at the hip to Cardinal Pierre after reporting to him directly at the papal nunciature in Washington DC from 2019-2022.
Thanks. I think that information only cements my view above.
// a pope who openly dislikes Americans //
Good trivia question. Nah, too easy.