Francis Calls Preserving the Faith a "Temptation"
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It consists of clichés such as: we cannot "pretend not to see these signs, "continue as if nothing had happened," "repeating the same old things," "drag ourselves through inertia into the forms of the past," "be paralysed by fear of change.”
Francis' forms of the past in which he is trapped are the disastrous recipes of Vatican II. Paralysed by fear of change, Francis is unable to overcome them.
Therefore he said correctly that in the Council Church the "temptation" is to "go backwards, out of security, out of fear" and try to preserve the "founding [Vatican II] charism." Restoring the beauty of the Church and of religious life would indeed result in a huge uproar of the lords of this world of which Francis and his bishops are deadly afraid.
His "temptation to go backwards and preserve [Vatican II] ‘traditions’ with rigidity" - Traditionis Custodes is an especially repugnant example for this - is for Francis even a "perversion." He adds that "underneath all rigidity there are serious problems.” As a matter of fact, commentators have pointed out that Francis suffers from serious underlying personal problems.
It is however strange that Francis qualifies the wish "to preserve the Faith" also as "a temptation."
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