In April 2009, Giorgio Agamben with prophetic inertia addressed an audience in the Cathedral of Notre Dame with the following accusation.
I say the following with words carefully weighed: nowhere on earth today is a legitimate power to be found; even the powerful are convinced of their own illegitimacy.
I wonder if the Bishop of Paris, who was in attendance that day, remembered those words ten years later when- that very Cathedral erupted into flames. When the very symbol of French Catholicism was destroyed.
The Church is at war with its own legitimacy.
Every symbol and sign of the Church’s majesty is intentionally peeled away today. Each gesture is a kind of faux humility, an aping of the virtue of humility where only a masochistic degradation remains. With the synod in sight, the Regime in Rome keeps repeating a certain phrase. “We must become a listening church.” But if the Church finds its legitimacy in the voices of man, where is the bedrock of the institution? The reason for the Church’s existence? What happens when Revelation and the Deposit of Faith are at odds with the new fashion of democracy?
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