The Bergoglio Method: Ambiguity, Power and Control
Damian Thompson interprets on 0The Spectator (June 23) the Francis' pontificate through the theory of charismatic authority. Francis emerges as a Peronist-style ruler who cultivated ambiguity, governed through unpredictability, weakened institutions, protected loyal allies, and increasingly centralised power around himself. Main quotes.
- “The theology of the Bergoglio pontificate has a curiously schizophrenic quality.”
- “… previously magisterial Catholic teaching on difficult topics such as divorce and homosexuality was somehow negotiable”.
- “…intentional imprecision of language, a tendency to caricature critics rather than engage with their arguments,…”
- “…his willingness to contradict himself. One moment he was inviting the LGBT lobby to the Vatican; the next, he was using Roman slang to mock homosexuals.”
- “He compared abortionists to paid assassins; he also allowed pro-abortion Catholic politicians to receive Holy Communion and appointed ‘pro-choice’ academics to …More
All his life in Argentina he was very active and was skinny until the last few years as cardinal archbishop.
Bergolio's one striking problem is HE ATE TOO MUCH.
A lot of people gain weight as they get older. They are less active. Sometimes it's their glands. You shouldn't assume he over ate.
Bergoglio removed the mask of Vatican II sect he just regurgitated the chameleon theology of his time all things to every one . BVI JPII Paul VI John XXIII abandoned Thomistic theology for modernist theology to be the product of their times. DARWIN Marxism Liberty fraternity equality UN . Instead council of Trent and Vatican I Pius IX Pius X Pius V St Peter and St Paul...etc