Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline is now considered a leading candidate to succeed Francis at the coming conclave. Vatican insiders have told LifeSiteNews that he “will be the next pope,” and Edward Pentin and Diana Montagna’s Cardinalium Collegii Recensio states that he is “allegedly Pope Francis’ ‘favorite’ cardinal to succeed him.”
Thus, understanding Aveline’s theology has become an urgent task. In the first three parts of this series we examined how Aveline systematically reinterprets the Catholic religion.
- Part I : He reimagines the role of false religions in salvation.
- Part II : He redefines the universality of Christ’s mediation to include those outside the Church.
- Part III : He reconfigures the Church’s mission around dialogue, rather than conversion.
Each of these moves represents an inversion of Catholic doctrine. Taken together, they constitute a system of apostasy. In place of the true religion, Aveline installs a new model which retains some of the vocabulary of Catholicism, while emptying it of its content. It speaks of Christ, the Church, and salvation—but reinterprets each in the image of modernity, grounded not in revelation, but in sentiment and politics.
These two final part s turn from theory to practice. We will examine how Aveline applies his synthesis to two concrete cases: Judaism and Islam.
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