Commentary: The Catholic pontiff has opened windows that are difficult to close.
Pope Francis welcomes President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Vatican on Saturday, March 9, 2019.Pope Francis
Within a couple of weeks, we learned how wrong we both were. The cardinals had elected as pope a man who would change the style of being pope, attack clericalism, empower the laity, open the church to conversation and debate and change the pastoral and public priorities of the church.The stylistic change was immediately evident when, from the balcony of St. Peter’s, Francis, in simple dress, greeted the people informally and asked them to pray over him before he blessed them.
Francis also opened up the church to conversation and debate in a way that had not been seen in the church since the Second Vatican Council. Fearing the church had become too chaotic, John Paul had used Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to clamp down on priests and theologians who wanted to continue discussing doctrinal issues in the wake of Vatican II.
In other words, Francis was telling the synod participants, “treat me the way St. Paul treated St. Peter.” And while others blamed the faithful or the culture for the exodus from the church, Francis feared that people saw the church as “too weak, … distant from their needs … cold … caught up with itself … a prisoner of its own rigid formulas … a relic of the past, unfit for new questions.”
Although I love and support Francis, he is not perfect. His language about women drives First World feminists nuts. One might call him a developing world feminist because he is concerned about human trafficking and poverty, not language. He will promote women to positions of power in the church bureaucracy but will not ordain them priests.
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