One is that what happened in Rome was the product of extreme—and, in the circumstances, culpable—naïveté on the part the small group of synod participants and Vatican staff who were responsible for it. The other is that it arose from calculation, shrewd—one might almost say cynical—but self-defeating in the end, intended to present the bishops who weren’t part of this inner circle of would-be reformers with a fait accompli.In charity, I favor the first explanation—culpable naïveté—but others will see it differently.
And I favor the second explanation.
I’m going to go with “Shrewd Calculation” for $400, Alex.
I'm still watching.
The synod manipulation is all the more shameless since “Collegiality” and its supposed subversion by the evil monarchical Papacy was one of the signal issues of the “Spirit of Vatican II” people under JPII and BXVI.
The synod manipulation is all the more shameless since “Collegiality” and its supposed subversion by the evil monarchical Papacy was one of the signal issues of the “Spirit of Vatican II” people under JPII and BXVI.
I’ll say the latter.