Herald has an excellent take on our current pontiff:
His whole thought-world seems to be that of a man who thinks the Church is still this insulated, neo-scholastic “fortress” whose walls need to be battered down, even as he stands astride the rubble. He is fighting yesterday’s battles.
In other words, he is a Boomer, through and through, and therefore terribly unaware of the papal magisterium that preceded him:
We seem to have been teleported by this papacy back to 1965, forcing those of us in the ressourcement camp to relitigate a case that was decided, with magisterial authority, by the previous two popes. They made it clear that the Council is to be received as an effort at reform by returning to neglected areas of the tradition (e.g., the Fathers) as a means of widening the Church’s vision. The Council is in deep continuity with the Tradition and is in no way to be interpreted as a rupture with that Tradition in the modality of modern secular Liberalism.
Matthew 17:17 still comes to mind. How long, O Lord, how long?
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