A representative of one of the Amazon rainforest's ethnic groups walks past Pope Francis at St. Peter's Basilica on Oct. 6 for the opening of the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region. (Photo by Tiziani Fabi/AFP)
There's a lot of commotion in and around the Vatican right now. It consists mostly of the angry rumblings of traditionalist Catholics who don't particularly care for the way Pope Francis is leading the Church. Then there are the retaliatory rebukes of the pope's most eager supporters. This has only increased the volume.
But, if you can believe it, this acrimony — which has long been on ugly display in the realm of social media — might be just a bit of relative calm before a really fierce storm.
And the drama is sure to intensify during this month of October, beginning, ironically, with the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi on Oct. 4. That was the episcopal ordination date for Michael Czerny, a Czech-born Canadian Jesuit who is among the Roman Church's 13 newest cardinals.
A peace-and-justice priest who once headed the Secretariat for Social Justice at the Jesuits' headquarters in Rome, the 73-year-old Czerny is currently the undersecretary at the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
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