Is the Vatican, intentionally, leading the Church away from Heaven?
Genesis 19:23-26 Lot reached the village just as the sun was rising over the horizon. Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah. He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation. But Lot’s wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt. Like many wholesome Catholics, I have been confounded by the actions of Pope Francis. Each day I cautiously open my laptop to see what is new in today’s Catholic world. (Politics is of no consequence to me because I feel, as I wrote in my last blog post, politics is not going to clean our mess… we must, somehow, get God back into the public arena. Only God can help us.) The latest bad news was reported in The National Catholic Register on July 1. Pope Francis, on July 1, appointed Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández to head the Vatican's doctrinal office, tasking his longtime fe