How to Red-Pill a Bishop

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ralfyman said:
He criticizes Archbishop Gomez for jumping the gun on Biden being the next President,
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yet, he didn’t stop there. he goes on to support . Gomez
That Archbishop Gomez didn’t endorse Mr. Biden may actually come as a pleasant surprise to those of you who know His Excellency as a trenchant critic of President Trump’s border policy. But Archbishop Gomez is vast; he contains multitudes. He’s solidly orthodox on a range of issues: abortion, homosexuality, gender ideology, and contraception, to name just a few. In fact, after his phone conference with President Trump on Catholic education, America magazine’s Father Matt Malone accused His Excellency of “being too chummy” with the President.
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did you miss this?
ralfyman said:
Finally, do you now see the connections between that and my first post?
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you are reading more into it than the point he wants to get across. you have to let the movie meaning go
 
You’re reading the article backwards! You’re referring to the fifth paragraph of the article. I referred to the eighth paragraph onward.

Why let go of the movie meaning when that’s the source of the phrase?
 
“Red Pilling” sounds inherently disrespectful.

I see no need to browse an article that uses such a term towards our bishops.
 
I think he wants bishops to become “an invaluable ally in the cause of Sacred Tradition,” to “be faithful to their sacred office”, and to “welcome the advice of wise and respectful laymen.”

That’s why I find the reference to red-pilling illogical. That refers to realizing unpleasant truths about one’s situation, but I don’t think that’s the author’s intentions.

“Sacred tradition” refers to the passing down of “apostolic faith,” of which understanding deepens in time. How do we apply that idea to the three examples given: that out of 271 bishops, only three spoke for one candidate or the other, that bishops have no control over their dioceses because of bureaucracy, and that Bishop Barron responded to critics’ cruelty by “by closing ranks and seeking out allies to oppose the ‘RadTrads’ (his words)”? Given that, I don’t think the solution to these problems involves red-pilling.

Finally, is Sacred Tradition that common ground?
 
Crisis Magazine is one of my favourite Catholic sites, they have great articles and are very orthodox, however occasionally they have an article that is just a little off - critical of Vatican II, borderline schismatic-y language, which is so unfortunate. The article in the OP is not one of their better ones.
 
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