I'm not sure I agree with
Mosebach, but he's always interesting, eh?
SPIEGEL: Pope Francis bears a contradiction to himself just by his name?
Mosebach: The Church, which is made up of many opposites, also lives
within the opposites between Pope and Francis of Assisi. It is fruitful
for the Church. She needs the institutions and the anarchic Christians.
But these two poles cannot both exist in one person.
SPIEGEL:
Perhaps that was the intention of the Pope: To show from the beginning
that he wants to lead the Church back closer to the foundations?
Mosebach: To which foundations? The Church must always go back to the
foundations because it is an historical institution and refers to a
specific time – the so-called fullness of time into which Jesus came.
She must always strive in this direction because it is a matter of
preserving the essence of the Faith. In the present time we are
concerned with a reduction of religion: its transcendental dimension
threatens to become invisible. And that means that the foundations that
are understood as the current state of society are not the foundations
of the Church.....
What is concerning about Pope Francis is the atmosphere he creates – as
though an entirely new Church has been created which has never existed
before in this way. As though Francis is correcting centuries of
abnormal development and is creating a new type of Church without dogma,
without mysticism. A Church which finds itself in compliance with the
current social consensus.
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