‘True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church’ (True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church) is “a snapshot of the Catholic Church in the United States.” This is revealed by its author, Francisc Maier, former assistant to the former Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput.
As reported by National Catholic Report, The book consists of a series of interviews with bishops, clerics, and lay people who work in the Church. He begins with the bishops, but without detailing their names or the questions he asked them. There are only answers linked to a surprising anonymity.
“A Pope should be the principle of unity in the Church and, instead, Francis encourages ambiguity, which fuels division,” a bishop tells Maier. “His distaste for the United States and its bishops is obvious and unwarranted. His attitude is authoritarian. And it is telling that not a single seminarian inspired by Francis came to this diocese during his tenure. A Church under pressure needs something better than this,” he continues.
“Over the last decade, the Roman curia has focused much more effectively on serving the needs of the local bishop,” says another bishop. “I give Pope Francis credit for that; and also for his efforts to reform the finances of the Holy See. These efforts are necessary. But I think his way of governing is actually quite ruthless. He weakens the authority of the papal office.”
“Francis seems to have a cabal around him with a useless ideology and agenda and a very negative view of the United States,” says another bishop. Among them, he points directly to the Boston Cardinal, Sean O’Malley, who has been the North American member of the Council of Cardinals.
Political criticism
But the comments are not limited only to Francis, they are also launched into politics. “We have a gang of hot-headed Jacobins who run the society and who They really believe that the government should control everything,” says one bishop.
“I have good relations with our local authorities… “But as far as the federal government is concerned, I think we are now faced with a totalitarian ambition,” another thinks. “And it will force us to separate ourselves more and more clearly from the State.”
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