“Informality elevated to a system has perhaps allowed Pope Francis to feel like he is in control. At the same time, it allows everyone to interpret his choices and decisions in willy-nilly. Likewise, using exceptionally “light” documents without consultations makes it nigh on impossible to understand the heart of the decisions.
“A solitary individual, however exceptional, cannot make history except very badly. What is striking is that around Pope Francis there are many “guardians of the revolution” ready to attack any criticism and to demonstrate how the Pope’s choices for rupture are essential in our times.
“This informality puts not only this pope but the papacy and the Church at various risks: conceptual, institutional, and structural. So, one wonders whether those who uncritically defend every choice of the Pope perhaps no longer love what the Pope represents for them, so much as they love what his peculiar and hyper-personal rule is doing to the Church.”
The article: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/pope-francis-informality-as-a-system
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