UNITED STATES
Bilgrimage
William D. Lindsey
In a new posting at his Christian Catholicism site, Jerry Slevin cites a recent observation by Robert Mickens:
Importantly, informed Vatican journalist, Robert Mickens, recently reported on a “rumor” that some experts at pontifical universities in Rome have been “asked to quietly prepare preliminary documents for an ecumenical council to be called during or after the 2015 Synod.”
Jerry notes that Mickens is understandably skeptical about the rumors, but argues (as he has done so for quite some time now) that the Catholic church desperately needs an ecumenical council to clean up its present mess and right its ship. As with everything Jerry writes, the essay is rich, dense, and lengthy. I’m presenting an excerpt here in the hope that it will point readers to the essay in its entirety.
Here’s the section of Jerry’s statement that leaps off the page for me, as the heart of the matter:
• Pope Francis has already bought the Vatican needed time strategically by shrewdly prioritizing the Vatican’s problems, but he has run out of time with that strategy. He put financial scandals first. He moved sexual morality issues to a drawn out two step, nearly three year Synod process. He placed the priest child abuse scandal on a slow track with an advisory commission with no clear mandate.
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