Tosses in a footnote and then what?

Jorge Mario Bergoglio is unquestionably an innovator. But in method, before it can be seen in results.

He always introduces the innovations in little doses, on the sly, perhaps in an allusive footnote, as he did with the now-famous footnote 351 of the postsynodal exhortation “Amoris Laetitia,” only to say later with candor, when questioned on one of his equally famous airborne press conferences, that he doesn’t even remember that footnote.

And yet those few cryptic lines were enough to ignite within the Church an unprecedented conflict, with entire episcopates squaring off, in Germany in favor of the innovations and in Poland against, and so all over the world between diocese and diocese, between parish and parish, where what is at stake is not only the yes or no to communion for the divorced and remarried, but the end of the indissolubility of marriage and the admission of divorce within the Catholic Church too, as is already taking place among Protestants and Orthodox.

Twinkle in eye should have warned us.

via Bergoglio’s Revolution. In Little Doses, But Irreversible – Settimo Cielo – Blog – L’Espresso

When it’s a gift.

[A] significant vote [in last week’s U.S. bishops’ meeting] was the election of Archbishop Kurtz of Louisville as the chair of the newly established Committee for Religious Liberty . . .

[He] noted that one of the most important aspects [of] the committee is [its] role to “clarify . . .  what the great gift of religious liberty is in our nation.”

“Part of that clarifying is to be able to say that the gift of religious liberty is . . . meant to be, first of all, not a special privilege, but, rather an opportunity consistent with your . . . religious belief and conscience to witness and to serve.” This includes aiding and praying for persecuted Christians and other victims of genocide around the world. [Italics added]

Not to mention speaking up when U.S. Catholics and others face compromising activity by the federal government.

via USCCB Meeting Recap: Consensus Amid Challenges

Right at the very end of Tuesday evening’s blunt and searing forum on race and education at OPRF [High School], a young woman, a freshman at the school, came to the microphone. She has attended public school in Oak Park through elementary and middle school, now high school. And in those years, she has never once had a teacher who wasn’t white

So what?

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