Excellent concluding paragraphs.
I suspect you’ll want to watch this week’s upcoming blogs very closely… something is going on inside the Vatican for sure, and for the moment I’m leaning strongly into the “it’s not good” camp, ala last week’s Canossa blog, and an upcoming blog this week…
As a Catholic I don’t pay attention to Bishops excommunicated by pope in a personal schism, especially when they want to discuss events that they supposedly knew about and kept in silence for 13 years.
… I guess given the situation surrounding information about the church it would simply be easier to do away with the church. Then there would be no need to worry about anything anyone said about any situation at any time. Problem solved.
I think the Vatican has been doing just that to itself for centuries, analagous to the present zeitgeist in the mundae, between governments and the governed. The the shenigans of the Vatican (find one deadly sin which is not endemic in that organisation and predicated by its emulation if not simulation of the destroyed Second Temple) have reached into the regions of apostasy, leaving behind it an abyss and chasm between it and the Body of the Church. Like many in the Body of the Church, I’m so past all the sychophantic spiritual-technocratic, self obssessed powerplays and blood sports the Vatican bureacracy play. They are of the ego, not of the spirit or heart. Wonder what JC would make of it all?