If a distinction between "modernism" and "postmodernism" is the be accepted, then Bp Fellay should have designated Pope Francis as the first "postmodern" Pope. Whatever the term, the statistics given indicate a very significant loss of belief in (or importance of) an afterlife and transcendence altering the "location", so to speak, of where believers find their fullest fulfilment, i.e., a shift from the breyond to the within. This "fact" makes me query just how can Pope F conclude that things are going well, not to speak, of his derogatory attitude to "restorationists". The prelate's mind-set seems to be unable to enable him to see the obvious. Or, from a modernist, viz., postmodernist point of view, the opening of a "window" by the Church to the modern world, i.e., the sense of the Church's mission, is to climb out through the window into the (post)modern world and to adopt its mode of thinking, experiencing, preferencing, expressing, celebrating, caring and etc. (I could go on). I find it difficult not to conclude that the Pope's apparent mission is finally to really realize Vat II in its full modernization, postmodernization or worldification of the Church and Her mission. It appears that the loss of those dedicated to consecrated life does not seriously bother the current pope. Should not the pope want a "restoration" of the religious to a consecrated life? But, a consecrated life entails focusing upon God in His divine transcendence, which consecration logically must contradict the WORLDLY mission of Pope Francis's Vat II Church. A religious in a monastery worshiping God does not in any way solve the problem of problems, namely youth unemployment.

Perhaps I am overreacting or becoming canical. But so strike me the "appearances".