Changing Church?

Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz on the changes in the Catholic Church. He went on to explain the meaning of the Local Bishop's Conference and the Dicastery. He concluded with...
"The novel thinking of Pope Francis is that instead of sending to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican for their resolutions, all questions, issues and doubts about local doctrinal matters and practices, these could be left instead to the competence of the likewise local Bishops’ Conference to decide on. This would be a real and interesting novelty in the Universal Church. And this demonstrates the expanded and creative thinking of Pope Francis!"

I hope this doesn't make the Catholic Church just a confederation of national churches or else, it would be the Traditional Catholic Church that would turn out to be the umiversal church. "Expanded and creative thinking"... hopefully for the best as Pope Benedict XVI had reminded us during his last days in office that the Church is Christ's. It's not Benedict's, not Francis'.

Fr. Thomas Rosica must like Pope Francis' papacy a lot. He called a NYTimes article "great" when it trashes Pope Benedict. I thought he works for the Vatican Press. Maybe it's like showbusiness wherein "any publicity is good publicity" because it puts the actors and actresses in the news and in the public's attention. Then, no wonder, the deluge of publicity had kept people ranting, defending, praising, hurting, enjoying, laughing.

And to take things lightly, from a Spanish blog of Fr. Jorge from Madrid. It's really funny, and the idea of a Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Papal "off the cuff" remarks. Perhaps, it will now be the task of the different Local Bishops Conferences.

Still, we can not forget what is happening in the MiddleEast as Cardinal Rai reiterates Christians always pay the highest price.