Last Marxist: Francis Wants "Permanent Revolution"
Jean-Marie Guénois gives a summary of the state of affairs at the Vatican in LeFigaro.fr (9 October)
• The Dicastery for Human Development (Czerny) and the Synod of Bishops (Grech) have created their own service of communication bypassing the Holy See press office. However, their bulletins are useless and don't contain real information.
• There is an "end of empire" atmosphere in the Vatican including a form of feverishness never observed before in the last three decades.
• Cardinals are bypassed in their role as consulters, Francis’ authoritarianism is weakening the Curia, the slogan "synodality" is only for propaganda purposes.
• Francis' power is strengthened, the role of the bishops minimised, diocesan bishops are losing their authority, "collegiality" is disappearing.
• There are risks of very serious divisions as “Catholic centralism," that could be criticised in many respects, was one of the strong points of the Catholic Church.
• Francis wants a Church in a permanent synodal state everywhere and at all levels [= Permanent Revolution].
Picture: © michael_swan, Flickr, CC BY-ND, #newsYrlhhvvzdg
• The Dicastery for Human Development (Czerny) and the Synod of Bishops (Grech) have created their own service of communication bypassing the Holy See press office. However, their bulletins are useless and don't contain real information.
• There is an "end of empire" atmosphere in the Vatican including a form of feverishness never observed before in the last three decades.
• Cardinals are bypassed in their role as consulters, Francis’ authoritarianism is weakening the Curia, the slogan "synodality" is only for propaganda purposes.
• Francis' power is strengthened, the role of the bishops minimised, diocesan bishops are losing their authority, "collegiality" is disappearing.
• There are risks of very serious divisions as “Catholic centralism," that could be criticised in many respects, was one of the strong points of the Catholic Church.
• Francis wants a Church in a permanent synodal state everywhere and at all levels [= Permanent Revolution].
Picture: © michael_swan, Flickr, CC BY-ND, #newsYrlhhvvzdg