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I waited a day to see if I could raise Messori’s original article online but the September-October edition of Il Timone where it was published
is not online, nor do I find it yet in La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, which is the daily journal that is a daughter of the monthly Il Timone.
So, for now, I will do with the account of it published Sunday in Il Giornale, which also published Page 1 of the article as shown above, but not the whole article


Messori criticizes the Pope, saying
he has immersed the Church in today's 'liquid society’

by Francesco Boezi
Translated from
IL GIORNALE
November 5, 2017

Vittorio Messori [by way of his international book sales over the last four decades] is thought to be the most widely read contemporary Catholic author in the world today.

From his ground-breaking booklength interview with Cardinal Ratzinger in 1984 to his booklength interview with John Paul II on the 15th anniversary of his pontificate in 1993 [and several of his own books about the Catholic faith and Biblical research)], the voice of the man from Sassuolo (province of Modena, northcentral Italy), has had particular weight in public opinion.

A Vaticanista who has voluntarily kept away from the ongoing war between critics of Pope Francis and the guardians of the latter’s ‘revolution’ in the Church, he nonetheless recently expressed criticism on the state of the Church’s health, words that the website Liberta e Persona has called Messori’s ‘dubia’ over Bergoglio.

In his regular column 'Il Vivaio' (The nursery) in the September-October 2017 issue of the magazine Il Timone, after discussing the present actuality of the theory of the ‘liquid society’ originated by the recently deceased Polish sociologist-philosopher Zygmunt Bauman, he includes the Catholic Church today as among the institutions immersed in such a sociological-existential involution. Of Jewish descent, Bauman saw how the collapse of communism opened the doors even wider to unreined individualism.

Messori writes:

“…The believer is disconcerted by the fact that even the Church – which had been the bimillenary example of institutional stability - now seems to want to ‘become liquid herself’. In a most disturbing interview, the new Superior-eGneral of the Jesuits, Arturo Sosa, has ‘liquefied’ the Gospel itself, since, he says, the words of Jesus were not recorded on tape , and so we do not really know what he said...

But another Jesuit, also South American, who is no less than the pope himself, in one of the many interviews he has been saying to all and sundry, in any and all circumstances – in flight, in St. Peter’s Square, on the street, what have you – that which is one of the hinges of his strategy of governance and teaching: “The Catholic temptation that must be overcome is that of the uniformity of her rules, of their rigidity, whereas it cought to judge and act case by case. [i.e., according to circumstances, which is, of course, a definition of situational ethics which is an enemy of Truth, as JPII makes clear in Veritatis splendor]’


In short, Messori appears to include the pope among those responsible for the fact that, under Bergoglio, even the Church now finds it acceptable that, in Bauman’s words, ‘change is the only permanent thing’ and ‘incertainty has become the only certainty’ [no better definition of philosophical and moral relativism].

Messori underscores:

“The term that this pope uses most often [after mercy, of course] is ‘discernment’ – an old tradition with the Jesuits which, however, has not until now come to mean ‘liberally interpreting even dogma, according to the situation’.”

Such an interpretation, Messori says, has been seen to be ‘erroneous’ and ‘damaging’ to the Catholic Church.

Il Timone has a long history, during which its contributors have included Cardinals Ratzinger, Caffarra and Mueller. Now it delivers this broadside at the workings of the Bergoglio Pontificate.

I paraphrase freely from Beatrice about the ff background and context for this rare intervention by Messori:
You may recall that around Christmas in 2014, Messori wrote a short article for Corriere della Sera which Antonio Socci described as “a very moderate commentary, compared to the usual eulogies to the Argentine pope, in which with a great deal of respect, he wrote about his ‘perplexities’ about some of the pope’s actions and statements”. But it started a firestorm of violent denunciations on the part of the Bergoglians, including Messori’s onetime friend, Andrea Tornielli (with whom he had co-authored a book during the pontificate of Benedict XVI, when even Tornielli was an unabashed Ratzingerian and defender of Benedict XVI against the attacks he got from his dissenters).

Since when, Messori has not written or spoken directly about this pontificate, except perhaps if we read between the lines of his wonderful account of the one and only visit he has made so far to the Emeritus Pope in Sept, 2015. And in December 2016, interviewed by Bruno Volpe for the website 'La Fede Quotidiana' about the ambiguities of Amoris Laetitia, he said this:

“I think there is ambiguity, and that it was intended. It is typical of Jesuits to say and not say. So many things leave me perplexed at this time, and for this reason, and out of a sense of responsibility, I have kept quiet. I am certainly alarmed and uneasy as a Catholic, but I have chosen not to be like my other colleagues and journalists who speak authoritatively. After all, who am I to judge the pope? But I am convinced, and I say so again, that Francis has little interest in doctrine”.


I certainly agree with Beatrice who comments: "I understand and I respect Mr. Messori’s reasons, even if personally, I wish he would speak out more. But again, who am I to judge Messori?”

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