While Pope Francis' vision was for a "synodal" and "listening" Church, such attitudes were not spread around. I am proposing a to do list:
Are we ready to acknowledge that Pope Francis' treaty with Communist China was disastrous and effectively abandoned faithful Catholics in China? Please speak in depth with Cardinal Zen!
Pope Francis (and the vast majority of the world) effectively ignored the plight of the incredibly devout Nigerian Catholics being slaughtered by Islamists.
Pope Francis played favorites with grossly unqualified and heterodox Jesuits like James Martin and Tucho Fernandez. He made the latter a cardinal & point man for the doctrine of the faith. Former Jesuit Marko Rupnik has been allowed to continue as a priest despite voluminous sexual allegations against nuns!
I have long been a reader of the annual addresses from the Holy Father to the Roman Rota. In more recent addresses, I thought that both St Pope JP II & Pope B 16 showed fear of incorrect declarations of nullity. Rather than follow such concerns of his predecessors, Pope Francis EXPEDITED these same processes. CHILDREN ARE THE ULTIMATE VICTIMS of MARITAL BREAKUP.
Pope Francis suppressed the Latin Mass & sneekily tried to equated gay couples with Holy Matrimony!
If you truly loved your predecessor, you would be alerting all the faithful to tirelessly pray for his salvation!
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Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.
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