Francis the Worst

Go here to read Father Z’s review.  I have the book and I heartily recommend it.  The pontificate of Francis was far, far from normal, and if it is regarded as normal it will do major damage to the Church for decades to come:

This is not a book for comfortable evening reading as if a novel in an arm chair.  That would be too depressing.   It serves as a resource.  It serves as a public record.  It is hard evidence.  It is a thorough prosecution.

So, I’m shocked, shocked that there is such a book.  I’m as shocked as Capt. Renault.

Seriously, the book is shocking.  We can, over years, allow the details of what Francis & Co. did and said to slip away in the rear view mirror.  But once they are all recalled, laid out and detailed, the results are truly shocking.

The book is also shocking for me, as a priest and, especially, as a convert.  As a new Catholic who came into the Church in the years of the vigorous John Paul II, and who was ordained by him, and who got to know well Card. Ratzinger, I have as Catholics ought a deep respect for the papacy.  I venerate the office of the Vicar of Christ and the munus Petrinum because they are willed by God for the good of souls.

I am not shaken in my respect for the office of the Vicar of Christ, the munus Petrinum.   We must distinguish between the office and the men who obtain it.