Time Magazine named Pope Francis person of the year in November 2013.
On May 9, 2019, I argued that the way to wreck the institutional Catholic Church would be to use the Church’s own weapons against herself, especially the power and primacy of the pope.
The Catholic Church, of course, is indefectible; but I argue now that Francis has accomplished the mission of ruining the temporal manifestation of the Church. As Archbishop Fulton Sheen had foreseen, we now have the “ape of the Church… emptied of its divine content.”
“That’s a bit dramatic,” you’re thinking. “Did Francis outlaw the Traditional Latin Mass when we weren’t looking?” To which I say, he did worse: he outlawed the reason for the Traditional Latin Mass, or any Mass for that matter.
There was no major announcement, not even another motu proprio. The final blow did not happen in Rome. It happened in Singapore. You heard about it, but you probably did not think much about it.
On September 13, 2024, in seemingly off-the-cuff remarks to a diverse group of young people at a Catholic junior college, Francis said, “All religions are a path to arrive at God… There’s only one God and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Some are Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths.”
These remarks were severely criticized by important Catholics because Francis seemed to be saying that one religion is as good as any other. This would build on the Document on Human Fraternity, which the pope signed in Abu Dhabi on February 4, 2019, declaring that “the first and most important aim of religions is to believe in God….”
Here we have the leader of 1.390 billion Catholics worldwide, the infallible pope, the successor of St. Peter, tossing off in casual conversation for all the world to hear, the idea that you do not need the Catholic Church “to arrive at God.”
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