Francis vs. the Deep Church – Crisis Magazine
Filial love and Occam s Razor both lead me to conclude that Francis is, indeed, just out of his depth. His isn t the anger of a tyrant, but that of a pawn. His ostentatious humility isn t a guise to hide his ambition: it s a genuine (if futile) effort to protect his own innocence. His unpredictable and erratic utterances arise not from any genius for deception but from a mind plagued with self-doubt. I suspect that nobody s more displeased with the Francis papacy than Francis himself.
This sounds plausible.