This is probably the second-biggest gambit of this pontificate. https://www.wsj.com/articles/pope-francis-to-bow-to-china-with-concession-on-bishops-1517507751 …
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One striking thing about the Francis era is that the papacy's big-picture argument, esp. in Laudato Si', is a sweeping critique of the modern technocratic-capitalist paradigm ...
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... but then the pope's big gambles, the divorce/remarriage push and perhaps this, both involve making major concessions to the stewards of that paradigm, in its Western-democratic and Sino-oligarchic forms, in the hopes of making new evangelization possible.
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"ok, we'll endorse worshiping Caesar...it'll make us more relateable to the Romans"
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