Pope’s Foot-Wash a Final Straw for Traditionalist Catholics

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3. The article shows both Reactionaries and Libs wary about which way he will jump

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022590948

Francis has both Reactionaries & Liberals on clenched toes to see which way he will actually go

I must be old since whenever I mention John XXIII, NOBODY knows who he was and automatically think I’m mistakenly referring to the JP2 dude. So this article made me have a WHIFF of hope for reform from this Francis, but the proof is in the pudding. There is a warning sentence in this article: (paraphrase: ) What Liberals forget by crowing over his tradition-busting is that he is MAKING HIMSELF POPULAR with these GESTURES and that this POPULARITY will make it hard to overcome WHEN (if?!1) HE SLAMS the reforms DOWN and REASSERTS THE WINGNUT POLICIES. In American politics it's called "capital" (to spend).

So I DUSTED off the John XXIII medals, but did not take them out to POLISH them. Yet.

Meanwhile, doesn't it sound like this dude's clenched/curled toes are screaming, "Just, EWWwwww!1"?




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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pope-francis-female-foot-wash-upsets-traditionalists-article-1.1303260#ixzz2P2Y3ya1u

[font size=5]Pope Francis' female foot-wash outrages traditionalists[/font]

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has won over many hearts and minds with his simple style and focus on serving the world's poorest, but [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]he has devastated traditionalist[/FONT] Catholics who adored his predecessor, Benedict XVI, for restoring much of the traditional pomp to the papacy.

Francis' decision to [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]disregard church law[/FONT] and wash the feet of two girls — a Serbian Muslim and an Italian Catholic — during a Holy Thursday ritual has become something of [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]the final straw[/FONT], evidence that Francis has little or [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]no interest in[/FONT] one of the key priorities of [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Benedict's[/FONT] papacy: [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]reviving the pre[/FONT]-Vatican II traditions of the Catholic Church. ....


A like-minded commentator in Francis' native Argentina, Marcelo Gonzalez at International Catholic Panorama, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]reacted to Francis' election with[/FONT] this phrase: [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]"The Horror.[/FONT]" Gonzalez's beef? While serving as the archbishop of Buenos Aires, the then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio's efforts to revive the old Latin Mass so dear to Benedict and traditionalists were "non-existent." ....



“Before liberals and traditionalists both have a spittle-flecked nutty, each for their own reasons, try to figure out what he is trying to do," Zuhlsdorf wrote in a conciliatory piece.

But, in characteristic form, he added: [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]"What liberals forget[/FONT] in their present crowing is that even [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]as Francis makes himself[/FONT] — and the church — [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]more popular[/FONT] by projecting (a) compassionate image, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]he will[/FONT] simultaneously [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]make it harder for them to criticize him when he reaffirms the doctrinal points they want him to overturn[/FONT]." ....

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