So I should be very brief in hazarding my own thought on how this Synod will end: I do not expect any bombshells. Eventually, those seeds will bear the wanted fruit. Younger men will come from a generation already primed to assent to the ethos of their times. Traditionalists like Pell and Burke, thorns in the papal side, will die off. One Synod is no more than a first, tentative turn of the screw. He says that Francis knows he will not be able to achieve all that he wants to achieve in his tenure, but he will have planted seeds. Leonardo Boff’s love letter to Francis, Francis of Rome, Francis of Assisi, makes a crucial point that applies here. This is a chess match being played with generational pawns on a board that extends beyond your lifetime or mine. Trying to follow it blow by blow gets us nowhere. What subsequent pope will be inclined to reverse that?) (He has made the papacy popular with secularists. However reassuring the conclusion-and I expect it will be-the substance of his intentions will have been given an airing for all the world to see. Reactions to what is revealed in the media will be useful to Francis in crafting his response. (That four of the supposed signatories now deny their John Hancocks lends a bit of drollery to the “hermeneutics of conspiracy” decried by the conspirator-in-chief.) Disclosure of Francis’s peremptory rejection of a cautionary letter, signed by thirteen cardinals and delivered by Cardinal Pell, has spurred dark speculation on the outcome, already seen as a done deal. Participants and procedures have been selected to give the pope the advice he wishes to follow. And there is little doubt Francis already knows what he will do.Īt the end of the day, Francis is the final arbiter of whatever comes out of this Synod.
Francis has already short-circuited it with his motu proprio-placed grandly under the protection of the Mother of God, we are told. There is something of a dog-and-pony show about it. For one thing, we are really not following the proceedings we are following only selective comments made to the media. Truth to tell, I have not been keeping track of the fluctuations of the Synod all that closely. But her request left me wondering if perhaps I should. I really was not sure I had any thoughts. “Difficult Feat in the Republican Circus” Puck Magazine, SeptemHilary White -artist, journalist, and keeper of the weblog, Orwell’s Picnicemailed from Norcia to ask if I would contribute thoughts on the Synod to her new project on that topic. Martin Luther King and Planned Parenthood.The Schismatic Trads Were Right? Francis' New Rescript on the TLM.The One Thread By Which the Council Hangs: a Response to Cavadini, Healy, and Weinandy.4th Sunday of Lent: Catching our breath and sneaking around."Suffocated by Meetings" Bishop Schneider on Synodality.Why the Pope Praises Modernist Architects.
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