Bishop Chaput Resists Francis Ahead of New Document

[Michie]

On March 8 of this year it was revealedthat Cardinal Fernández and Pope Francis are working on a new document to be published in early April, just in time for your Easter meditation. This morning Diane Montagna confirmedthat His Holiness had a meeting with His Eminence, which was probably about this document.

At the same time as this was happening, His Excellency Bishop Charles Chaput, the archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia, published his own comments against this pontificate in First Things. They were published online and in the April print edition.

Bishop Chaput is not a “Trad bishop,” but a disciple of the last two pontificates. As such, he praises the “classically Ratzingerian” text of Lumen Fidei, an encyclical began by Pope Benedict and finished by Pope Francis. “[A]s prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,” he says, “Joseph Ratzinger was one of the greatest Christian minds of the past century.”

But, says, the Archbishop Emeritus,

The rich quality of Lumen Fidei stands in unhappy contrast to every other document of the Francis tenure. It’s a painful judgment, but true.


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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.

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