[ReaganGeneration2]

But aren’t half the “Catholic” university professors bordering on heretical anyway? Why would they comply?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well, there's your Catch-22. The soi-disant "progressives" would love to force the rest to pledge a kind of Peronist Allegiance to Pope Francis, giving the peronist-papalists an easy reason to sack the normal Catholics from the faculties, chanceries, rectories.

On the other hand, the more thinky peronists may realize that this could backfire as soon as Francis is not pope anymore. After all, the guy is 81, and getting another -- specimen --- like him from the next conclave is not a slam dunk.

They won't want to absolutize the concept of "personal papacy" ("Le eglise c'est moi") if the next pope is a Catholic.