PopeWatch: Unfortunately, Yes
- 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.
I do wonder how much longer this can go on.
But with the massive $$$ infusion of government money to Catholic Charities = Catholic Bishops’ back pockets—it will be for quite a while.
In twenty years, you’ll have seen another tsunami of parish closings (“Together in Faith”) and several dis-establishment/mergers of diocese.
Not that any of it will matter to Francis II or the episcopate of like-minded men.
Pretty soon, Catholicism in the West will look like the Tsarist armies of August 1918: a lot of be-medaled colonels and generals leading dispirited platoons of enlisted men.
In twenty years, absent an act of God giving the Church a true Vicar of Christ, the real Church will be underground, as in the England of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Get ready.