Friday, July 11, 2025

A second Honorius?

Like his predecessor Honorius, Pope Francis failed clearly to uphold traditional teaching at a time the Church was sick from heresy.  So I argue in my contribution to a symposium on Francis in the latest issue of The Lamp.

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  1. AnonymousJuly 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM

    "and it will vomit out today’s liberalism and modernism too. When it does, the adulation Pope Francis received upon death may prove as ephemeral as that which Honorius enjoyed."
    Liberalism and modernism are here to stay.

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  2. TonyJuly 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM

    C'mon, Ed, quit beating around the bush and tell us what you really think of Francis's artful ambiguity and deliberate muddles. He can't declare you persona non grata now. You needn't be coy about it. ;-)

    Seriously, even if one wanted to defend Francis's problematic statements, questions, and declarations one by one where each one, by itself, is sort-of, kind-of, not entirely wrong, it is still true that clarity of teaching is per se good, and his (apparently deliberate, studied) practice of creating confused ambiguity where none belongs is contrary to role of the pope. At least not so far as we have understood it by the previous occupants of the chair for almost 2000 straight years. Similarly, the constant phrasing of changes as presenting a new church or a "new way of being church" seem to be starkly contrary to the way ALL prior popes viewed their role, even the ones who instituted enormous reforms.

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