The 85-year-old pontiff says the week-long pilgrimage showed he needed to take things easier, noting "the door is open" for him to possibly step aside.
I don't think that is a particularly fair analysis.
His health hasn't been doing great and people were speculating he might choose to resign before the trip.
He has just appointed several new cardinals and is overseeing the synod of synodality with the goal of a less centralized and global church.
I don't see how you can read the statement as some kind of surrender to the tradcaths and an abandonment of indigenous people, when if anything him saying "you can change the Pope" is them saying "this process can and will continue without me"
Less centralisation doesn't strike me as a good way to clean up the "church is full of pedos" problem. Seems more like a way of shifting blame, but that won't matter to the general public.
Right. But I don't think that will stop it happening in the first place. It'll just allow senior levels to blame the local branches without actually solving the issue which will continue to remain because these people are attracted to the church as a place they can access children from a position of authority and community trust.
Yeah, that's fair. I noticed how many old articles there were when I tried looking this up. I guess I'm just cynical about the longevity of his influence, but I didn't know about the Cardinal appointments so thanks for dispelling some great man theory.
I don't think that is a particularly fair analysis.
His health hasn't been doing great and people were speculating he might choose to resign before the trip.
He has just appointed several new cardinals and is overseeing the synod of synodality with the goal of a less centralized and global church.
I don't see how you can read the statement as some kind of surrender to the tradcaths and an abandonment of indigenous people, when if anything him saying "you can change the Pope" is them saying "this process can and will continue without me"
Less centralisation doesn't strike me as a good way to clean up the "church is full of pedos" problem. Seems more like a way of shifting blame, but that won't matter to the general public.
I don't know about that from my understanding a lot of the coverups were driven from senior vatican officials
Right. But I don't think that will stop it happening in the first place. It'll just allow senior levels to blame the local branches without actually solving the issue which will continue to remain because these people are attracted to the church as a place they can access children from a position of authority and community trust.
Yeah, that's fair. I noticed how many old articles there were when I tried looking this up. I guess I'm just cynical about the longevity of his influence, but I didn't know about the Cardinal appointments so thanks for dispelling some great man theory.