I have noted that since Vatican II, popes have been quite free with exhortations to secular rulers. To be fair this was not an infrequent occurrence prior to Vatican II, but now seems to be a constant drumbeat. I think we can all agree that since Vatican II no one could call the Church well governed. This might lead one to the conclusion that the Vicar of Christ might wish to spend more time concentrating upon the Church and less time attempting, usually with a notable lack of success, to give instructions to the various caesars of this Earth. Staying in your own lane is a neologism that I believe might be apt.
Mind Your Own Business
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Fr Marko Rupnik is free to move about Rome, still, after all this time.
Is the inability to stay in his lane a legitimate result of Pope Leo believing his own hype or is it meant to thrown off scents?
I suspect that he believes what he is saying but also a good deal of monkey see and monkey do. He worked with Pope Francis and he is aping him to a large degree because that is what he saw a pope doing.
I believe in the pope should abide by the quote that Father Z has posted several times: “more processions, less chatter.”
The problem of trying go become more engaged with the world, to evangelize in it anything other than the truth of the risen Lord is that you soon have opinions about the rest of the world. The world is the Lord’s, and all that is in it, but it doesn’t mean that it’s within the purview of the Pope.
What’s distressing about clergymen in general is that they’d often do their work better if they did less.
One of the primary errors of the modern Church is it prefers a ceasefire with the world instead of victory.
Trump wants victory. That must be why they are confused.
Past popes certainly tried to keep the peace within Christendom, but never worried about keeping it with the enemies of Christendom, against whom they sometimes organized crusades. (Remember those?)
“How many aircraft carriers does the Pope have?”