One way to analyze the current pontificate is to view it as the last gasp of clerics who came of age during Vatican II. It brings to mind the only thing Karl Marx ever got right:
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
Who wants to be a part of an Institutional Church that has “epsicopalianized” itself into effeminancy, cowardice, and heresy?
Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away? 69 And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. 70 And we have believed and have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of God.
71 Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve; and one of you is a devil? 72 Now he meant Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon: for this same was about to betray him, whereas he was one of the twelve.
In short, Peter knew from the start that there wasn’t anyplace else to go. Christ admits from the start that there were going to be serious personnel issues.
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