I understand not going. It's a show trial and other "opponents" of Francis have died under unusual circumstances. The latter half was Savonarola's reasoning for ignoring Alexander's IV summons (make of that what you will. I'm sympathetic to Savonarola, personally). At the same time, I think it would be good for traddy morale for him to go there and call out the heresies of the Vatican to their …More
I understand not going. It's a show trial and other "opponents" of Francis have died under unusual circumstances. The latter half was Savonarola's reasoning for ignoring Alexander's IV summons (make of that what you will. I'm sympathetic to Savonarola, personally).
At the same time, I think it would be good for traddy morale for him to go there and call out the heresies of the Vatican to their faces. And ideally back up his prior claims of Francis's McCarrickesque behavior.
I’m also sympathetic to Savonarola. I know a Dominican who once told me that he’d found correspondence from him, perhaps in the Blackfriars’ archives, that made it clear that he got into trouble for preaching against sodomy.
I heard the same thing. When I was younger, I decided if I were called to religious life, I would take the name Jerome in his honor (also for St. Jerome as Scripture and languages always fascinated me).
