Bishop Chaput Resists Francis Ahead of New Document

Bishops of this kind have found that the status quo under Papa Wojtyła – with everything else that came before – is increasingly under attack. This leads Chaput to turn from Francis to Cardinal Fernández, about whom he says, “[h]is thinking isn’t shallow. It’s simply wrong in some crucial ways, with big implications.” He does not need to turn to a Trad voice to condemn Fernández. No, the good bishop turns to “José Granados. The former vice president of Rome’s Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family—before Pope Francis changed its focus[.]” Fr. Granados summarises the problem with Fernández and Chaput quotes his conclusion as follows: [Fernández] claims that the Christian people, especially the simple and the poor, possess a special insight into the truths of faith, even though they have little speculative or rational power. There are forms of knowledge of God that elude scholars and that simple people are better able to grasp through lived experience of the …