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            The Vicar of Christ,
                
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            assassinated when he launches a crusade for pacifism,
                
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            the idea of a liberal pope who sets out to bring sweeping change to Catholicism has long been tinder for artistic imaginations.
                
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            The Vatican,
                
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            The Young Pope was something else.
                
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            Francis’s successor could well be a reactionary.
                
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            cynic, saint, and supervillain.
                
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            the liturgy will no longer be a social engagement,”
                
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            the church will not accommodate to the world,
                
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            the old-time form of Catholic faith is more fascinating,
                
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            young, conservative-leaning Catholics with social media accounts.
                
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            the young as a liberal vanguard and the older generation hunkered in resistance.
                
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            Pope Francis and his progressive allies belong to an older generation
                
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            Lenny Belardo’s
                
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            real pope’s more conservative opponents were abruptly ushered off the Roman stage.
                
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            Cardinal George Pell,
                
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            Gerhard Müller from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
                
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            (He would later write an introduction for a book by Rocco Buttiglione, the John Paul II confidant who argued for continuity between Francis and his predecessor.)
                
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            he was ushered into retirement,
                
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            Francis “did not give a reason,”
                
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            Francis blamed him for the dubia
                
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            Benedict, still very much alive, sent a personal eulogy to be read aloud at Meisner’s funeral.
                
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            pope’s allies speculated on who had really written it (presuming that Benedict was senile and malleable);
                
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            In this last period of his life, he learned to let go and to live out of a deep conviction that the Lord does not abandon His Church
                
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            watched his successor set about dismantling his legacy.
                
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            patience, trust, and prayer.
                
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            taking small step after small step to instantiate a liberal reading of Amoris,
                
        
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            “private” letter endorsing the Argentine bishops’ cautious opening to the communion for the remarried
                
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            (A group of traditionalist theologians and clergy did issue a “filial correction” of Francis in early autumn of 2017,
                
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            Francis was an old man but not obviously declining, and were he to reign for five more years, still more of his remaining critics in the College of Cardinals could be effectively retired,
                
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            should he be succeeded by a similarly inclined successor—perhaps a liberal “young pope,” elected to confirm the Francis revolution—the
                
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            There is a historical irony here. It was conservative Catholics who backed the strongest possible understanding of papal authority—first
                
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            placing too much of a stress on the papacy’s importance as a guarantor of orthodoxy threatened to obscure the higher importance of, well, orthodoxy itself.
                
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            The Francis era has made conservative overconfidence of the John Paul II era look foolish in hindsight.
                
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            “Francis effect” seems to be largely a media phenomenon,
                
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            rather than an actual revival of enthusiasm within the church.
                
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            Mass attendance in the United States is flat
                
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            among younger Catholics religious observances have modestly dropped off.
                
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            Record numbers of Italian Catholics took steps to disaffiliate from the church in 2015.
                
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            In Brazil the decline of Catholic numbers steepened in the Francis era,
                
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            Australia: What had been a gentle decline in Catholic identification under John Paul and Benedict has accelerated in the 2010s.
                
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            seminary enrollment went down in each of the first few years of Francis’s pontificate, after seeing (small) annual increases up until 2011 under Benedict.
                
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            These are short-term trends, and most of them cannot be plausibly blamed on the pope.
                
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            But they are evidence against the frequent suggestion from Francis’s admirers
                
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            strong historical correlation between progressive theology and institutional decline,
                
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            this time things are different.
                
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            his sermons against rigidity and clericalism and ritualism so often cast younger priests in an unflattering light—as
                
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            His Vatican has been very eager to investigate and scrutinize growing traditionalist orders,
                
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            Liberal Catholicism’s difficulty, now as forty years ago, is that it has the most appeal to Catholics with the loosest connections to the church, and its appeal weakens as the intensity of commitment increases.
                
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            induces men and women to give their lives in service to the faith.
                
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            When you include both the Society of Saint Pius X and the traditionalist orders in full communion with the church, the number of French priests associated with the Latin Mass is growing steadily,
                
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            will be more traditionalist (not merely John Paul II–esque conservative) French clergy in 2040 than priests in the diocesan clergy and other religious orders.
                
        
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            leading the French church to import priests from Africa—hundreds
                
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            Next, consider Africa itself,
                
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            When various African theologians and bishops showed up in Rome in early 2017 for a conference on the continent’s theology, the main organizer, Father Paulinus Odozor of Nigeria and the University of Notre Dame, preempted questions about the dubia with a two-step move.
                
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            “We settled that long ago. They can’t.”
                
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            mass attendance is presently close to 70 percent; mass attendance in Europe in 20 percent,
                
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            Africans may also experience a situation similar to ours. Then they might call us up to see how we dealt with it. To get some useful tips.”
                
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            “where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed”
                
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            criticism of Amoris Laetitia got the eminent Catholic philosopher Josef Seifert dismissed
                
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            an open letter critical of the pope got the eminent American theologian Father Thomas Weinandy dismissed
                
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            “a toxic atmosphere of intimidation”18 around the remarriage-and-communion debates.
                
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            Once you have persuaded yourself that a given reform is what the Holy Spirit wants, the toleration of conservatives who want to fence or cage the Spirit is no virtue,
                
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            If a second marriage or a same-sex partnership (or, for that matter, a physician-assisted death or a biotechnology-assisted reproduction) isn’t really sinful but just sort-of not-ideal,
                
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            if that younger cadre swings further to the theological right,
                
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            If the conservatism of John Paul and Benedict led only to Francis, perhaps it didn’t conserve enough;
                
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            In an ideal world conservatives might take the Francis era as an opportunity to think harder about what development of doctrine allows and what it doesn’t,
                
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            it’s more likely to inspire a purely reactive sensibility, and with it the abandonment of any hope of a new center for the late-modern church.
                
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            Francis could be induced to resign so as to be replaced by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the present Vatican secretary of state
                
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            a mix of rumor and rubbish;
                
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            Heresy might be tolerable, but schism is bad for business.
                
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            more aggressive nationalisms
                
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            The younger left is reading Marx; the new right is dabbling in fascist and nationalist thinkers;
                
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            In certain ways as the “people’s pope” Francis was a harbinger of this trend. His highly personalized style, his willingness to “make a mess” in the service of internal revolution, his insult-rich rhetoric, his impatience with circumspection, tradition, and taboo . . .
                
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            Rome under Francis is much like Washington under Trump—a paranoid and jumpy place,
                
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            The Vatican under Francis always seems to have time for secular and liberal and non-Catholic opinion, whether it’s organizing conferences that feature population control advocates or searching for common ground with pro-abortion politicians or sending the pope off to celebrate the Reformation’s anniversary in Sweden while sticking Martin Luther on its stamps. But the theological concerns of conservative Catholics are waved off as pharisaism,
                
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            instead of a fully Catholic alternative to right-wing nationalism the Vatican seems to be offering conservative Catholics only judgment on their shortcomings, their chauvinism, their anxieties and lack of charity toward all.
                
        
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            wedding his economic populism instead to Kasperism and the moral theology
                
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            easing the path to annulments
                
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            he had already found many ways to please progressives without having conservatives murmur about heresy and schism.
                
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            he always intended a kind of revolution, and the appearance of conservative-leaning moderation that enabled his election
                
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            Francis never had a programmatic vision in mind for church reform,
                
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            his irritation with legalisms, he did not understand the consequences of making the issue of remarriage and communion
                
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            for good or ill he will go down as one of the most significant popes of modern times.
                
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            he will be remembered with Boniface VIII in the ranks of ambitious popes who overreached,
                
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            Like Boniface after Celestine, Francis has pressed papal authority to its limits—theological this time, not temporal, but more dangerous for that.
                
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            choose a path that might have only two destinations—hero or heretic—is an act of great and dangerous presumption, even for a pope.
                
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            As provincial he generated divided loyalties: some groups almost worshipped him, while others would have nothing to do with him, and he would hardly speak to them. It was an absurd situation. He is well-trained and very capable, but is surrounded by this personality cult which is extremely divisive. He has an aura of spirituality which he uses to obtain power. It will be a catastrophe for the Church to have someone like him in the Apostolic See. He left the Society of Jesus in Argentina destroyed with Jesuits divided and institutions destroyed and financially broken. We have spent two decades trying to fix the chaos that the man left us.
                
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            Hagan lío! Francis likes to say. “Make a mess!” In that much he has succeeded.
                
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