Cowardice in the anti-Francis brigade | National Catholic Reporter

Cowardice in the anti-Francis brigade | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Let us remember what happened to American Magazine when Rome thought it had gone too far off the reservation.  I think it is time to prove that turnabout is fair play over at the other NCR and EWTN.



Apparently, the 45 malcontents don't believe that AL is part of the Magisterium (or alternatively, that the term Magisterium is out of date, since Francis did not use the usual magic words.  Of course, as I wrote yesterday, I would have preferred, for the sake of the dissenters, that Francis had actually announced doctrinal changes rather than a move toward greater pastoralism, whatever that is.  It seems that this would have been better for the right than it would have been for the left who were demanding change (and got subtlety instead).