Some sentences stay with you and you think about for a long time. These are usually sentences that you didn’t expect, and they are often sentences that explain the world to you. These sentences are rarely special on the surface, and sometimes they come from someone you would never have expected to say them.
In recent weeks, I have been thinking about a sentence by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who said shortly before Christmas that the “Bergoglian church” is no longer the Catholic Church.
I confess: this sentence is outrageous and fascinating, and the most disturbing thing about it is that it is profoundly true because what we are experiencing under Pope Francis is nothing other than the establishment of a neo-church that is undermining the foundations of Catholicism and calling divine revelation into question.
There are dozens of examples of this, and it is tedious to repeat them over and over again. Yet the basic pattern behind everything is always the same: Francis is the first pope to believe that he stands in the place of God and can, therefore, give the Church of Christ a new form.
With the appointment of a woman religious as “prefect” of a Vatican dicastery, this has now happened once again to the applause of (above all) the (inner) enemies of the Church, and in a significant way.
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