{"id":4261,"date":"2025-04-23T10:19:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:19:26","slug":"pope-francis-catholic-church-legacy-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=4261","title":{"rendered":"Catholics Expected a Revolution From Pope Francis, Just Not the One He Gave Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Pope Francis convened Roman Catholic bishops at the Vatican in 2019 to discuss the ordination of married men in remote parts of South America, the meeting raised expectations about the possibility of revolutionizing the celibate priesthood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The bishops recommended he do it, and Francis himself had long said he wanted change in the church to come from the bottom up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Francis ultimately balked, deciding that the church wasn\u2019t yet ready to lift a roughly <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/congregations\/cclergy\/documents\/rc_con_cclergy_doc_01011993_chisto_en.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">1,000-year-old restriction<\/a>. Many of his supporters, who expected him to be a pope of radical change, felt let down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was a salient example of how Francis, who died on Monday at 88, was a pope of great, often outsized, expectations. His revolutionary and freewheeling style led Catholics across the spectrum to invest him with their most ambitious \u2014 at times unrealistic \u2014 hopes and fears, sometimes independent of what he said or did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some liberal Catholics, forgetting Francis was the leader of a deeply conservative institution, expected him to make women priests, change teaching on birth control or throw his weight behind same sex unions and gay marriage. Some conservatives, including a few who convinced themselves that the Argentine pope was a secret Communist, worried he would torch the church doctrine, even though he never touched it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Transparency advocates appreciated the increased clarity he brought to the Vatican Bank, but wanted more financial reforms. Advocates for victims of clerical sex abuse appreciated new protection measures, but wanted universal zero tolerance measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you are a left-wing Catholic you may think the pope talked a great game but didn\u2019t deliver as much change as you would like,\u201d said John L. Allen Jr., a longtime Vatican analyst and the editor of Crux, a publication specializing in the Catholic Church. \u201cFor every one of those, there\u2019s a conservative Catholic that thinks the pope went way too far.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, as cardinals descend on Rome to discuss the church\u2019s challenges, they will soon choose from their ranks a successor to Francis who will carry a whole new array of expectations \u2014 about whether he will breathe life into a certain region of the globe, work to reform or restore, follow through on Francis\u2019 promised upheavals or roll them back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of unfinished business that whoever comes next is going to have to pick up,\u201d Mr. Allen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Francis\u2019 supporters, detractors and Vatican analysts agree that there was also a lot that Francis did do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe has fundamentally changed the culture of the church. Without really touching any doctrine,\u201d said the Rev. Thomas J. Reese, a prominent Vatican analyst who in 2005 was forced out by the future Benedict XVI as editor of a Catholic magazine because he had published articles critical of church positions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Francis, he said, allowed an \u201copenness for discussion and debate that freed theologians to once again talk and write about things, because he believed that this is the way theology grows, to figure out how to preach the gospel in the 21st century without just repeating 13th century formulas that nobody understands. So these are revolutionary changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But there were concrete changes, too. Francis cracked the door open for divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion by giving more latitude to local priests and bishops. But instead of changing church law, he encouraged people to engage in the process of praying over the issue with their priests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He opened up major meetings of bishops \u2014 his preferred decision-making body \u2014 to laypeople and women, and he put women in big jobs within the powerful Roman bureaucracy that governed the church.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He suppressed the Latin Mass beloved by traditionalists who wanted to restore old ways, made liturgical changes intended to make the church\u2019s prayers more accessible to people in local languages, and allowed priests to bless same-sex couples. But he also allowed African priests who revolted against the blessings to essentially ignore the rule.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The cardinals who elected Francis in 2013 did so with a clear desire that he reform the Curia, and he introduced a new Vatican Constitution, streamlined its departments to avoid repetition and waste and introduced cultural changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEveryone was forced to really look outside, to have a dialogue and language suited for the outside world, this was the change,\u201d said Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, who used to run the Vatican\u2019s culture department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some Vatican officials said significant resistance slowed Francis, and that changes he made were more incremental than revolutionary. But Cardinal Ravasi believed the changes to the Curia were permanent, and \u201cnot just cosmetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Supporters of Francis in the church hierarchy and veteran Vatican analysts say Francis\u2019 effect on the church was more complicated, and in some ways deeper, than policy changes or specific reforms. He sought to change the way the church saw itself, incessantly haranguing his hierarchy against acting like princes above their flock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cChange of process is more important than the change of product. It\u2019s deeper. It\u2019s more important. It\u2019s more long lasting,\u201d Cardinal Michael Czerny, who was a close aide to Francis, said of the meetings. \u201cThe topics are secondary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But he said that the more collegial, bottom-up process would ultimately be better to take on difficult topics, and make progressive decisions with sticking power. Concerns about the process being rolled back were misplaced, he said, because a new pope could decide to do anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is nothing that we have done over 2,000 years that couldn\u2019t be rolled back,\u201d he said, but undoing such a deep change in process would be a radical, and difficult, reversal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the world stage, Francis\u2019 changes may be equally lasting. He sought to bring the church out into the world. He appointed cardinals all around the globe, often passing over traditional centers of Catholicism for far-flung places to increase the church\u2019s global footprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Benedict had inadvertently damaged relations with the Muslim world by delivering a speech that insulted Islam early in his pontificate, Francis set about improving the relationship, often in lands where Catholics lived in danger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He flew to Iraq during the pandemic to meet with a Shiite leader, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asianews.it\/news-en\/Shiite-leader:-the-meeting-between-the-pope-and-al-Sistani-historic-moment,-a-message-of-tolerance-52195.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani<\/a>, in the holy city of Najaf. He signed major agreements with Muslim spiritual leaders designed to recognize one another\u2019s rights and protect vulnerable Catholic minorities. He undertook enormous criticism from conservatives who accused him of caving on human rights by trying to improve relations with a Communist regime that persecuted Catholics in China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe has pushed the boundaries,\u201d said Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican\u2019s foreign minister.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But perhaps his most consequential change for the church will be seen in coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Francis appointed a large majority of the College of Cardinals that will now pick his successor. He often chose prelates who shared his priorities of being close to the poor, welcoming the marginalized and moving issues like climate change to the forefront.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For many, the question now is whether those cardinals will pick someone who will meet or dash the expectations of Catholics who supported Francis. But those who knew Francis best say that unrealistic expectations made for a reductive metric by which to judge his legacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn many ways,\u201d Archbishop Gallagher said, Francis was \u201can old-fashioned conservative Jesuit. At the same time, somebody who\u2019s very open to what certain other voices are saying in the church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bringing those two things together, he said, was the story of his pontificate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Emma Bubola<!-- --> contributed reporting from Rome<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Pope Francis convened Roman Catholic bishops at the Vatican in 2019 to discuss the ordination of married men in remote parts of South America, the meeting raised expectations about&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":4262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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