This is the new modus operandi for Francis' implementation of the Conciliar reform. Francis himself will remain, for the most part, officially unconnected with the brutal suppression of Tradition except when this nets him positive PR; that duty will be devolved upon diocesan bishops, bishops' councils, and various Vatican congregations who have been back-channeled the necessary instructions and who are willingly on board anyway. We have already seen this pattern emerge with respect to Kasper's intention to distribute Communion to the divorced and remarried. The preponderance of pressure will be on the side of liberal reform, and if any conservative prelate or layperson protests the new direction in the name of Tradition, Francis will simply tell him to ignore the bishop or council in question while himself doing nothing to discourage the liberalization. The Vatican will implement the Gramscian strategy of rule by consensus reality. There will be no accountability, no place to address grievances, but the voices of conservatism will succuмb to a ratchet effect of frustration and marginalization. After the C8 conference (or whatever the hell it's called) and next year's Episcopal Synod, the Novus Ordo church will officially become nothing more than an affiliate of locally organized community centers.
This will mean strange days ahead for the Resistance, who at that point will be stronger partisans of papal authority than the pope himself. Will they continue to recognize Francis as a legitimate pope, or will they finally adopt a sede-like position when they realize that nobody at all is discharging the papal duties, that there is some sort of pope-regent in the Vatican but no true pope? Perhaps the idea that Paul VI's rejection of the papal tiara was a de facto abdication and meant that neither he nor his successors ever legitimately held jurisdiction within the Church from that point forward, will be voiced with greater urgency.
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