Ex--nuncio’s j’accuse further rocks the Church’s shaky foundations

It’s over. Two thousand years of power and authority, of intellectual superstructure designed to continuously create learned helplessness and obedience may not have ended during the papal visit to Ireland, 2018, but the decline accelerated.

This weekend did not see anything like a collapse of the Catholic Church, but it established, for good and finally, that the structure is like a home built with pyrite, that the effects of inbuilt flaws are cumulative and that the shifts, the cracks, the collapsing integrity of the building are now total.

And this happened before Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò published his accusations against the Pope. It happened when survivors of mother and baby homes told the pontiff what he was to say at the Mass, yesterday.