Commentary
The deaths of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Cardinal George Pell, within 11 days of each other, have focused attention on Pope Francis’ legacy.
Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope to stem the flow of the faithful away from the Church, particularly in South America, clean up Church finances, and sexual abuse scandals. However, on these counts and so many others, Francis’ papacy has been a litany of failures.
These have been laid bare in the Demos document (Greek for people)—a statement attributed to Pell on the state of the Church that is being passed around by cardinals. In it, Francis’ papacy has been described as “catastrophic.”…