Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Beatifying Pope Paul VI may be a signal: Don’t expect radical changes

From Crux Now-

The recent Synod of Bishops on the Family concluded with a Mass in which Pope Francis beatified one of his predecessors, Pope Paul VI. Was staging the ceremony at the end of that tumultuous summit an indirect way for Rome to dampen expectations of radical change under Francis? It would seem so.

Giovanni Maria Montini, the given name of Paul VI, was a former archbishop of Milan and the Vatican’s former Secretary of State. He brought the Second Vatican Council to a conclusion in the mid-1960s, in a period marked by immense social change.



More here

http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2014/10/29/beatifying-pope-paul-vi-may-be-a-signal-dont-expect-radical-changes/



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