Cardinal Scola Defends Francis, Attacks Viganò And Allies
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According to Scola, the pope - even when he undermines unity - is “the ultimate, radical and formal guarantor” of Church’s unity (ChiesaDiMilano.it, July 18).
For Scola, criticising Francis is “a profoundly wrong attitude because it forgets that ‘the pope is the pope’.” However, no prominent Francis critics denies that "the pope is the pope," although repeating this sentence will not make the present Vatican heresies go away.
Francis reduced his own authority by officially discarding for himself titles like "Vicar of Jesus Christ" or "Successor of the Prince of the Apostles."
Scola considers criticising Francis - especially when "irritating comparisons" with previous papacies are made - as a "decisively negative phenomenon that is to be eradicated as soon as possible.”
Similar statements were never heard from "conservative" Scola when previous popes were - unjustly - criticised by faithless liberals.
Picture: Angelo Scola, © Wikicommons, CC BY-SA, #newsGnhthnsckn
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