UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
The pope’s meetings with the world’s Cardinals are over. Who is in charge now at the Vatican? Has the ex-bouncer pope lost his tight grip? Perhaps Pope Francis is getting ready to retire? The pope has buried for now all bishop accountability demands in a “do nothing sex abuse commission”. The over studied abuse and accountability issues will now be studied further endlessly at Rome’s Jesuit run Gregorian University. Most importantly, Pope Francis has added more supportive Cardinals now, apparently enough to tilt the next papal election to Cardinal Pietro Parolin, his heir apparent.
Francis’ new Cardinal and longtime pal from Argentina has also indicated that Francis will change no teachings at the absurd “all celibate male” Final Synod on the Family in eight months. Is Francis already packing his bags? Is he also going to quit like his incompetent predecessor had to do two years ago?
Parolin just publicly called for a major military escalation in Libya. Top German Cardinal Reinhard Marx just, in effect publicly told Vatican money czar. Cardinal George Pell, to shut up about new found Vatican wealth.
For the “mythical premises” underlying these surprising developments, please see “Five Crucial Myths Pope Francis Preaches: Why?” , here,
For the overall implications and fatal flaws of Pope Francis’ present plans, notwithstanding the papal mythology, please see “The Crisis Pope Francis Faces” here [Christian Catholicism] .
Marx seems overly sensitive about money, but he also seems to have a job to do — to protect the $7 billion annual German subsidy to Catholic bishops that Hitler earlier topped off in 1933 for Pope Pius XII in exchange for, among other benefits, advancing Hitler’s rise to Fuhrer status.
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