Those Traditionalists! “What I am Saying Is Not Absurd” - Francis
He admitted that “it is very difficult” to see them when “using very old-fashioned [= realistic] schemes,” so “we must renew [= manipulate] our way of seeing reality.”
In Europe, for Francis there is renewal in “spontaneous things” like “movements, groups, new bishops who remember that there is a [failed] Council behind them.”
Francis believes that some bishops remember best “the Council of Trent” – as if this were a crime. “It is not an absurdity what I am saying," he added.
He claims that since Vatican II “restorationism has come to gag the Council” and presents a stab-in-the-back myth complaining that the number of “restorationist groups” is “staggering,” especially in the US. “Restorers” are for Francis those who “never accepted the [failed] Council.” Does he mean Germany or Holland?
Francis sees “signs of renewal” in abstract “groups that through social or pastoral assistance give a new face to the Church” – but it’s unclear what he means.
He consoles himself by saying that it takes “a century” for a Council to take root and that there are still forty years left. But why should the future be better if the past was so bad?
Francis is nostalgic for the 1960s (“post-conciliar period”) – when sexual abuses skyrocketed. He remembers Father Pedro Arrupe (+1991), a Jesuit superior general at the time, calling him a “prophetic voice” and “a saint” although Arrupe presided over the downfall of the Jesuits.
The biggest devils for Francis are “the traditionalists” [= Catholics] who are blooming unlike Francis’ overaged council ideologists.
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