Vatican’s former doctrine chief sounds alarm on Francis’ plans to reorder curia

Cardinal Gerhard Muller

 — where “doctrine” is expected to take a backseat to “evangelization” —  stating that the plans do not contain a “convincing concept of the origin, essence, and mission of the Church,” and, pointing out that one passage of the document even contains “shocking theological cluelessness.”

… “to be run like an international company” and as if “it is about a balance of power” between a mother company and subsidiaries. MORE

Evelyn Waugh Predicted the Collapse of Catholic England

Imagine a society enfeebled by constant, top-down, progressivist experimentation offering universal, programmatic solutions to problems that are either inherently localist or transcendent. Imagine an intellectual elite who are arrogantly uninterested in—and perhaps conscientiously deaf to—the concerns of ordinary, working-class people. Imagine a media that serves as a microphone for this elite, actively avoiding stories that don’t harmonize with their enlightened narrative.

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