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by Brian Coyne , LINDEN, NSW, Sunday, March 10, 2013, 11:15 (1 hours, 12 minutes ago) @ gemstones
Thanks for the link to Jerry Slevin’s article. He offers sensible ideas BUT THE REALITY IS THAT NONE OF THEM WILL BE LISTENING TO JERRY SLEVIN (any more than they are likely to be listening to any of you or me). The fundamental problem is that they honestly do not think any wisdom is capable of coming from below them. They sincerely do believe that they alone are “guided by the Holy Spirit or the Almighty” and there is no way that culture will be changed.
Andrea Tornielli in Vatican Insider/La Stampa [LINK] has an article on the Archbishop of Milan, Angelo Scola, coming back into contention and, interestingly enough his odds with Paddy Power have shortened to now be the front runner. I now think the most likely outcome is that Scola will emerge as the next Pope in the coming week. He’s not the candidate I would vote for but I think that is the most likely outcome. God help the Catholic Church though. The election of Scola virtually guarantees “more of the same” that has reduced Catholicism to this sad spectacle it has now become. The future will be further decline into irrelevance as any significant force in society.
The fundamental systemic problem…
The more I mull on this whole problem “what is wrong with Catholicism/why has it run off the rails so badly?” the more I come to the conclusion that at the heart of the problem is there are two fundamentally incompatible cultures in Catholicism today centred around the question of “Where does truth reside?”
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