US Bishops: Francis Is Authoritarian, Ruthless Divider
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It contains interviews with US bishops, who must of course remain anonymous.
One bishop tells Maier that "a pope should be the principle of unity in the Church; instead Francis is promoting ambiguity that feeds division" (NcrOnline.org, 10 June).
Another bishop said of Francis: "His distaste for the United States and its bishops is obvious and unwarranted. His manner is authoritarian. And it's revealing that not a single seminarian inspired by Francis has come to this diocese during his tenure. A Church under pressure needs better than this."
A third bishop gives Francis credit for supposedly "reforming" the Vatican's finances: "I think his manner of governance is actually quite ruthless. It weakens the authority of the papal office."
"Francis seems to have a coterie around him with an unhelpful ideology and agenda, and a very negative view of the United States," says a fourth bishop.
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