Getting Frank about Frank

 

It is a grim meditation, but it is obvious to me that Pope Francis, with his recent motu proprio restricting the Latin Mass, knows he is doing wrong. He titles it, “defenders of tradition’; it is an attack on a traditional form. He says it is for greater unity in the church—he cannot believe this. Restrictions on the Latin mass caused the most recent schism in the church, the splitting away of the SSPX. He says it is to give bishops full power to decide for their own dioceses, and he does this by requiring of them that any new requests to perform masses in Latin must be referred to Rome.

These are the hallmarks of the guilty mind: to claim to do the opposite of what you are doing, is a tacit admission that you know what you are doing is wrong.

So why is Pope Francis doing something he knows is wrong?

I think we must accept that he has been a bad man all along; a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

He just had half his colon removed in a three-hour operation that the Vatican tried to keep secret. He may know he is dying. 

When an unrepentant sinner dies, his instinct is to take the world with him: to do as much damage as he can on the way out. He does not want to be the only one suffering.

That is what this looks like: Francis wants to create a schism. He does not want to leave the church in good order for a successor.