A key point: the papacy
In the Church there is talk of solidarity, ecumenism, brotherhood, synodality, but there is a big problem that does not facilitate these paths. It is the question of the papacy. How to stimulate a free and authentic growth of people and therefore also an authentic exchange and therefore a truer brotherhood, synodality and so on if then the hierarchy, the Catholic media, the pontifical universities, the whole apparatus must slavishly repeat the thought of the reigning vicar of Christ?
Among other things, in an era of single thought, risking ending up endorsing it. How important it is to stay away from system logics that dominate with the de facto silencing of any free participation and even with slander and all forms of persecution.
It seems necessary to identify the most essential points of the faith and then allow each reality to express itself, certainly in the criteria of the faith itself. The papacy at the service of the charisms in the Church and not dominating. Could this lead to the risk of weakening the Catholic structure with respect to earthly powers? Perhaps at the time of the rise of the national states this danger was greater but today in the time of the homologated globalism of the powerful of the virtual the preponderant difficulty seems to come from a forced internal uniformity.
The codes, the schematic watchwords, the cultural institutionalisms that make the free and shared investigation of the truth optional, then favor and are also favored by the philosophical basis of single thought: the abstract, emptying, rationalism, the technicality of everything field. While, starting from school, the free growth of identity and only then authentic exchange can benefit the search for a more authentic and balanced, lively, personal growth.
The Church can become a profound leaven for maturation in a society that is increasingly heading towards collapse, total emptying, making everyone mere, isolated, a consumer lost in an anonymous mass.