I don't quite know how to say this, but I think
the Pope is a sede. He didn't even sign "his" first encyclical with "PP"; he just signed plain old "Francesco". Everyone assumes the best, and the Curia guys make sure he's called 'Pope', but no PP in the sig, no mozetta on the loggia, ...
no one here:I really think
Francis doesn't believe in a Papacy. The closest I think he's come to suggesting he's the Pope is when he said he never wanted to be Pope — and can I just say, REALLY? He came in 2nd in the last conclave; he
showed up for this conclave, and (well, see the picture below). Anyway, saying he didn't want to be Pope isn't really an acknowledgement that he thinks he IS the Pope in the traditional sense of the office.
And if that's the case, I think it could be as
Charlemagne said: why should there be another 'Pope' if the Pope doesn't believe in the Papacy? Could he retire and live alongside the other non-Pope Pope, and just say, "The spirit of V2 says all Bishops fit a mystical concept of 'the Pope', so no more of this Papacy business"?
(Not sure a Pope can END the Papacy, but I didn't think JP2 could get rid of the Devil's Advocates, nor that Francis could ignore the requirement for miracles before someone is canonized, and let's not even talk about what Montini did to the liturgy and Saints.)
Here's the infamous pre-Conclave picture that keeps bugging me (don't look at Dolan; look who he's POINTING to):
I had thought Dolan was playing "here is the church, here is the steeple", but duh,
he's pointing to Bergoglio before the Conclave even started. (And look how irritated the Card behind them is
) Something's been REAL fishy in the last year or so. I think something went down around Easter 2012, when BXVI said Austria had to get it's evil clergy in line (all those Austrian "clergy" who wanted gαy sex, abortions, priestesses, etc).