After barely a year, the “revolutionary episcopate” of Archbishop Marco Tasca of Genoa (670’000 Catholics), Italy, is in troubles.
Genoa priests listed their grievances in an anonymous letter (MarcoTosatti.com, April 6).
• Tasca, a Franciscan, continues living in his monastery in the beautiful Albaro district while the bishop’s house is empty, “It seems difficult for him to detach the ancient umbilical cord.”
• Tasca spends entire days with his episcopal vicars (his “magical circle”), including abundant lunch and a post-lunch nap. They organise two-day or three-day study sessions, “perhaps in a hotel.”
• Confirmations are administered by episcopal vicars.
• Tasca strips the peripheries (Francis: “go to the peripheries!”) of priests employing them full time in the Curia that was never before so crowded with priests.
• There are more concelebrants in the Cathedral than faithful while priests lack in the suburbs.
• The youth ministry is run by a sixty-year-old priest; Cardinal Bagnasco, …More