Is the Vatican Imploding?
From the
National Catholic Reporter:
The Vatican is undergoing a historic "implosion," according to Robert Mickens, Vatican correspondent for The Tablet, published in Britain.
In a November speech to the City Club of Cleveland, Mickens said we are "viewing the collapse of an entire system, structure, ethos and culture, the crumbling of what is close to an absolute monarchy as ever existed and certainly the last absolute monarchy in the West."
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Here are some of the signs of implosion he discussed: the bitter fights for promotion, the corruption, the cronyism among bishops and cardinals, as revealed in the Vatileaks scandal; the ongoing parade of Catholics out of the church; the relentless decrease of priests with the accompanying mergers and closings of parishes in the Western world.
A major sign and also a cause of the implosion, Mickens said, is the "cleric-centered" organization of the church, which leads inevitably to "clericalism." He sees a definite "resurgence" of clericalism, calling it "a cancer," spreading especially among the younger clergy....
The only solution is structural change, Mickens said...
Well, then.
4 comments:
I'm sure it is inappropriate for an Episcopal Bishop's Warden to be snickering but I am.
Time to start up a hearty rendition of "Ding, dong..."? ;-p
But God is faithful. After death, faithful Roman-Catholics-not-to-be-confused-with-Popoids, comes resurrection!
There are times when I think the Church is just another neighborhood in the City of Destruction, or another collection agent for the bank.
Roman Catholicism survived worse periods of corruption and collapse than this (though not without serious structural reform), and it can survive this if the laity demands accountability from their hierarchs.
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