October 25, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has an enthusiasm
for images and metaphors. The Church is a “field hospital,” shepherds
should “smell like the sheep,” etc. This week, he tried out a new one.
The Church, he said at his Wednesday audience, is not a fortress. It is,
rather, an “expandable tent,” a tent that “always has its doors open”
and is “on the move.”
Someone (I don’t remember who), sardonically remarked on Twitter: “So, like a circus tent.” I admit it, I laughed. The image, I’m afraid, feels a little too apt at the moment. Indeed, if the goings-on at the Vatican these days didn’t have such a sinister undercurrent, they would surely be funny.
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