Where is Ockham when we need him?

In 1328 William of Ockham escaped Avignon just ahead of the Papal executioners. Off he went to Munich where he managed in the next twenty years to disassemble the legitimacy of the Papacy. His Work of Ninety Days is a classic exposing the limits upon the Papacy and this work has survives some seven hundred years without any significant change.

Now in the Telegraph it is noted :

“Behind these attacks there are dark forces,” said Tommaso Valentinetti, 66, an Italian archbishop. The pope’s enemies were “throwing mud” to try to discredit him, he said. The allegations against Pope Francis were first aired in the middle of his trip to Ireland, where he apologised for the Church’s decades of complicity and cover-up in the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy. Archbishop Vigano claims that he told Pope Francis of the allegations about Cardinal McCarrick, whom he described as “a serial predator”, back in 2013.He said that rather than punish McCarrick, the Argentinian pontiff had lifted sanctions imposed on him by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI.

Overall the issue is clear.  The Church faces a serious set of problems and it appears that the solution is not simple. The Counciliar Movement may likely be the best option out. Yet a re-examination of the Papacy and its powers needs to be redone as Ockham had done seven hundred years ago. Yet we do not seem to have an Ockham at hand.