{"id":173,"date":"2025-05-07T12:27:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/rogues-in-bergogios-footsteps\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:27:29","slug":"rogues-in-bergogios-footsteps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/rogues-in-bergogios-footsteps\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogues in Bergoglio&#8217;s Footsteps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The truth is too magnificent a thing to be the the property of any one religious institution.&#0160; Too magnificent a thing, and too elusive a thing to be owned or housed or patented or reduced to the formulas of a sect or finitized or fought over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Institutions too often value their own perpetuation over the fulfillment of their legitimate mandates. Examples are legion. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This observation occurred to me last year as I watched Representative Chip Roy&#39;s grilling of the prevaricating FBI director Christopher Wray.&#0160; It is especially pertinent to churches of whatever stripe.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Idolatry is ubiquitous. Bibliolatry and ecclesiolatry are species thereof, not that &#39;Romanists&#39; could be accused of the former.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Things are not looking good for the RCC. Jim Bowman <a href=\"https:\/\/jimbowman.substack.com\/p\/more-rogues-gallery-candidates-for\">reports<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth is too magnificent a thing to be the the property of any one religious institution.&#0160; Too magnificent a thing, and too elusive a thing to be owned or housed or patented or reduced to the formulas of a sect or finitized or fought over. Institutions too often value their own perpetuation over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/rogues-in-bergogios-footsteps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rogues in Bergoglio&#8217;s Footsteps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,178,189,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-ecclesiology","category-idolatry","category-institutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}