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So perhaps you are right, in a way. Francis did not explicitly claim that the bishops told him to make a change. He claimed that they spoke of problems, and that his change was based on these problems.
Right and what were the problems? It may be the division in the Church as a result, or it was the negative effect
I believe it was not used in a misleading manner.
And as I posted before, if someone does not want it to look like they are making decisions based on polls, then they should not claim that they are making decisions based on polls. When the Pope literally says, "The responses reveal a situation that preoccupies and saddens me, and persuades me of the need to intervene...," he is obviously making a decision based on a poll.
Not that much division is evident in the survey. In either Diane Montagna's publishes summary or now in the msgr Bux national results. Pope Francis created more division with his moto proprio than existed before his moto proprio. I wonder if that made him sad at all. It sure made a whole lot of other people sad.
The clear implication was that the polling clearly showed a problem the pope needed to fix. In other words, that the data from the poll would show a clear and present danger requiring the suppression of the traditional mass. The results now look like there was not any big problem to be fixed, everything was mostly OK, most counceled leaving it all alone, and that the holdout bishops that refused to implement Summorum Pontificum were about the only issue left.
If you don't want it to look like you decide things based on polls then you should be very very quiet when running a poll, and you should not refer at all to a poll when you announce a decision.
Or he is obviously making a decision with the claim he based his decision on a poll. I'm not seeing where his actions were based on the reportage we see by Montagna or Bux. What am I missing?
Well perhaps.
By calling so many people backwardists. That doesn’t sound like an expression of the desire for unity. Todos, todos, todos for everybody. Everybody but those who find value in an older thing. They get called backwardists.
Real but not that common or that extreme.
There isn’t, as far as I know, anyone in this forum that totally rejects the novus ordo.
