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In his address to the U.S. bishops at their annual meeting in Baltimore last week, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the papal nuncio to the United States, argued – nearly to the point of obsession – that Vatican II has to be regarded as the guide to the present and future of the Church. And the Council, he made clear, as interpreted recently by Pope Francis. (“Pope Leo also is convinced of this.”) It was a bold, if doubtful, claim, given the well-documented ability of theologians to disagree. Even the more progressive among them might find reasons to dispute any such attempt to “control the narrative.” Indeed, the Cardinal went further into even more difficult terrain, claiming – Rome must have cleared all this ahead of time – that “We now inhabit the world that the Council foresaw.” It’s telling – more on this below – that Pierre felt he had to push this so strongly at the American bishops, the implication being that he knows they’re not so very much in agreement.
