Roman Catholic schism watch: Fr. Pavone, Bishop Wilmer, and more "Christianity must change or die"

• The Vatican has dismissed pro-life giant Fr. Frank Pavone from the ministry. All part of Jorge Bergoglio's attempt at remaking and rebranding the Catholic Church: get rid of those "embarrassing" anti-abortion folk.
  
  • That said, I try to be fair, so from the rightly respected Phil Lawler here are reasons Fr. Pavone was in trouble, from 11 years ago.
  • Fr. Pavone's reaction to being kicked out of the ministry.
• German Bishop Heiner Wilmer is Bergoglio's possible pick for doctrine chief. I didn't know anything about him. All I saw at first were two unobjectionable statements, that church officials mishandled the sex-abuse problem and for married priests, and a problematic one about abuse of power being in the church's DNA, which sounds like a denial of church indefectibility (which doesn't mean the clergy are perfect). But here's more from Catholic World Report. "Just because it's German let's not jump to conclu- Aaand it's Modernists." (Modernism: no truth or truth is unknowable so doctrine is changeable.) Sometimes something is actually what it looks like. Still more remaking and rebranding, in the German bishops' "Synod on Synodality" mode. We are living through a schism. Bergoglio means business. I've been half-joking that he'll make James Martin a cardinal. This — giving Benedict XVI's old job to Bishop Wilmer — would amount to the same thing.
• Bergoglio allies claim Western Christianity "no longer works." Calling for a decentralized Christianity yet using the Pope to ram it down people's throats. "The age of Christianity is really over." ... All the while, the fact that Traditional Latin Mass communities and parishes are flourishing is often maligned or ignored, or rather, seems to have prompted a desperate attempt to keep the “old Christianity” from rising from the dead. Me on the old Catholicism: it worked because it had the medieval Mass keeping people in line, in what was in many ways a big tent.