For perhaps the first time in their history, American Catholics face the kind of existential conflict that destroyed mainline Protestant churches and threatens evangelical and Pentecostal ones — as one picture powerfully illustrates.
The Rev. Joseph Devlin, a pastor in suburban Philadelphia, tweeted a picture of a book in his trash can. The Foreword for the book, The Synodal Process is a Pandora’s Box, was written by Cardinal Raymond Burke, the former archbishop of St. Louis. Burke, who questions Francis’ theological positions, warned about an upcoming international synod that proposes fundamental changes to historic teaching.
Where this belongs! I stand with and trust Pope Francis. pic.twitter.com/MBaDvpxSni
— Rev Joseph Devlin (@FatherDevlin) August 29, 2023
American Catholics find themselves in the crossfire between those, like Devlin, who support Pope Francis come what may and those, like Burke, who question the fundamental direction Francis is leading the church.
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