Pope Francis is dead. Father Paweł Gużyński warns: Returns to what has always been possible

Francis was a revolutionary pope – said Dominican Father Paweł Gużyński on TVN24. As he said, he wanted to restore power in the Church to people. He warned, however, that “returns to what was always possible.”

Pope Francis He headed the Catholic Church equally 4,421 days, or over 12 years. Father Paweł Gużyński spoke about his pontificate on TVN24. He pointed out that Francis in his sermons devoted a lot of space to the fight against clericalism.

– This pope spoke a lot about it, he was very harsh towards priests and at all the phenomenon itself. He walked so far that he said: there are also areas in the Church, where the secular are larger clerics than the priests themselves. He did not like very clericalism and fought him very much and diagnosed this clericalism in various ways. He pointed out that this was one of the greatest problems of the Church – said the priest.

He added that the Argentinean “knew it perfectly from South America, where this clericalism looks different than in Europe.” “He particularly cared about it, he showed all his attitude, be close to people, do not separate from people,” he pointed out.

Father Gużyński reminded that the Pope was “anti -stabland”. – He did not like this splendor, everything that was associated with tradition, and burdened the papal office – he explained.

Pope-Revolutionary

– At the beginning of his pontificate, the Pope wondered whether to sell most of the Roman basilicas to get rid of this whole burden related to the maintenance of these great monuments. He would actually prefer that they were museums, and he wanted to take care of the living church, i.e. people. Of course, this turned out to be unreal, but if he asked him what he was playing in his soul, I suspect he would admit it, because we had such leaks – said the Dominican.

He emphasized that this tells us something very important about this pontificate. – Francis wanted a church, which is not burdened beyond any elements of tradition, a scheme, above all some financial entries, enthusiasts related to power. It was a revolutionary in this respect – he assessed.

“The greatest work and the most important intuition” of Pope Francis

He pointed to a huge disproportion of power between clergy, who are only a fraction of the church community, and the faithful who are the foundation of the Church. “This was very disturbed by Pope Francis and wanted to reduce this disproportion,” he said.

In his opinion, the fact that Francis was a Jesuit had a huge impact on the nature of his pontificate. – On the one hand, it was a pope striving for some egalitarianism in the Church, and on the other hand he was a Jesuit of flesh and blood, if something had to be arranged, he rather walked on such a typically Jesuit line, i.e. a strong, sole proprietorship, a sole proprietorship, disliked opposition. It was a large class of stubborn – said Gużyński.

“Returns to what was always possible”

When asked what awaits the Church after Pope Francis and whether the reforms he introduced means that there is no return to what was, Father Gużyński replied: – I warn you, recent events in the whole world show that returns to what has always been possible.

– If we delude ourselves that Auschwitz may not happen again and we do not follow it, we do not educate, we do not introduce this experience of subsequent generations, we have great chances that in some time Auschwitz in some form will happen again in some form – he warned.

As he said, “Pope Francis did a lot of good reform work, he opened a lot of directions, but whether it can be continued, we'll see it.” He added that it depends on his successor and many other factors.

– Unfortunately, the return is possible and there are such groups in the church that are just waiting to set up a 18-meter cap and parade through the entire basilica of Saint Peter with a group of altar boys who will carry the tips of this cap in the air and again the medieval court will return to us Vatican he warned.