PopeWatch: Exit Strategy – The American Catholic

PopeWatch: Exit Strategy Donald R. McClarey July 26, 2021 One Comment   ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW Hmmm.  From Sandro Magister: But that’s just it. As the two books cited above prove, the time has come to back away from the reigning pope, if one aims to succeed him. After wringing out all the favors it could, the Sant’Egidio lobby has decided to put Francis on the shelf. The Church is burning, the flock is lost, it is time for a new pope. The two books trace his profile in their own way. Too bad that the aimlessness of both, on the real epochal challenges that the Church is called to face today, will not help him. Go here to read the rest.  A Pope can be in ill health for quite a few years, as was demonstrated in the latter part of the pontificate of John Paul II.  Pope Francis could still be Pope for quite a while.  The important thing is that now he is regarded as a short timer.  His hasty issuing of his declaration of war against the traditional mass, without consultation other than with a handful of his cronies, was not the action of a Pope who believes time is on his side.

PopeWatch: Exit Strategy – The American Catholic