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William D. Lindsey
Steve’s surgery seems to have gone well, and he has spent the day sleeping. Thank you, all who have asked about this and have told us you’ll be praying. We both appreciate it very much.
Since my nursing duties are lighter as my patient sleeps, I’m sneaking an unanticipated moment to share some articles I’ve run across lately, or have been sent by friends or have read on Facebook. These all have to do with reform of the Catholic church and with the role Pope Francis may or may not play in reforming the church:
In The Tablet, theologian Hans Küng sees the papacy of Pope Francis as a window of opportunity for continued reform of the Catholic church along the lines of Vatican II, after Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI sought to restore things to the pre-conciliar norms. If Francis fails to reform the church, Küng proposes that reform continue from the bottom of the church upwards, without the approval of the hierarchy and even in direct contradiction to hierarchical commands. Failure to move in the direction of reform will produce an ice age in the Catholic church, Küng believes, in which Catholicism “will run the risk of dwindling into a barely relevant large sect.”
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