Cf. Post qui sotto We were never very likely to escape a Boomer pope. However, there's…

We were never very likely to escape a Boomer pope. However, there's a huge difference between someone born in 1936 and someone born in 1955. Bergoglio came of age in the delirious ecstasy of Vatican II and was forever stamped by that Woodstock experience. Prevost was only 10 years old when Vatican II ended, and while he too grew up in the post-nuclear wasteland, the relationship to the event was quite different. Let's put it this way: Bergoglio was emotionally codependent on Vatican II, whereas Prevost is only conceptually committed to it. This is a step on the path to the next pope, who will be not quite as conceptually committed as Prevost, until a time comes when a pope arrives for whom Vatican II is just one among many councils, no more. Yes, it's a darn slow process, but that's how human generations work, and we have to remember that instant results are given by computers, not by history.

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