You bring up the majority of Catholics who see popes come & go with a docile, "he's our Pope. It's all as it should be." I felt a sudden longing to be like them. So much I can't do anything about & why bother knowing anyway? Popes do come & go. And we talk of Michelangelo.
(Anyway, just venting a sudden passion. Thanks for reading this.)
Give it time, there will be much for the papal posse and EWTN faithful to criticize. A couple quick examples: there are his tweets, rightly criticizing JD Vance, for instance. For another, his drawing reference to Rerum Novarum for his choice of name.
He may well be polite and "not confusing", but there will be feigned confusion all over the place if he starts talking much about the poor or migrants, or much about Catholic social teaching. He needn't address the extraordinary form, at all. God has given us what we need, just like with the previous Popes.
I think it's largely an American phenomenon, reflecting political polarization over the past 10 years or so. We want to fight and prove the other guy wrong. It really weakens our witness to the Gospel, I think. .....I too am guilty of this...
You bring up the majority of Catholics who see popes come & go with a docile, "he's our Pope. It's all as it should be." I felt a sudden longing to be like them. So much I can't do anything about & why bother knowing anyway? Popes do come & go. And we talk of Michelangelo.
(Anyway, just venting a sudden passion. Thanks for reading this.)
It's better knowing less sometimes. You never want to see how the sausage is made.
Give it time, there will be much for the papal posse and EWTN faithful to criticize. A couple quick examples: there are his tweets, rightly criticizing JD Vance, for instance. For another, his drawing reference to Rerum Novarum for his choice of name.
He may well be polite and "not confusing", but there will be feigned confusion all over the place if he starts talking much about the poor or migrants, or much about Catholic social teaching. He needn't address the extraordinary form, at all. God has given us what we need, just like with the previous Popes.
Can Catholics go one moment without attacking others in the same faith. What a divided mess of a church.
I think it's largely an American phenomenon, reflecting political polarization over the past 10 years or so. We want to fight and prove the other guy wrong. It really weakens our witness to the Gospel, I think. .....I too am guilty of this...