Rapid Response for SATURDAY, December 7, 2019

SO SAD TO SAY...
but Pope Francis has so far been a disappointment.
Originally presenting himself as a breath of fresh air, an "Aggiornamento" which had been effectively stifled during and since Vatican ll, he has in recent years declined to pursue some much-needed reforms for the Church - reforms of positions based not upon the Holy Bible or even Tradition, but upon the political Church requirements of long past centuries.
And now we evidently have another political Church requirement: a "requirement" to champion all immigrants and immigration without regard to need or intent, and without regard for the needs and rights of sovereign nations and their people. This stance certainly goes, in my opinion, beyond moral Christianity and well into Politics. That must have been the calculus for some of the actions taken in the long-past centuries as well.
Meanwhile, the reactionaries in the Magisterium worry about causing a "schism" in the Church.
Well, what do you think you have now: having lost one or two generations while seeing Church attendance decline from over 70% to less than 20%?
I still hope to witness this Pope to lead, rather than to be a care-taker for another day. Whether the Church survives for another day, its Flock may well not.

GS