The "structures" which Francis wants to do away with means nothing less than the Catholic Church as he has existed for the past 2,000 years. That is what Francis rejects as "useless" and "decadent." Like all of the "reformers" of the past, Francis intends to reinvent Christianity - and the Church - according to his own distorted notion of the Gospel, which is simply the social gospel centered on Francis saving the poor from poverty here on earth, not the Gospel centered on Christ saving souls from hell.

Francis talks as though true Christianity -- the true meaning of the Gospel -- had been lost by the Church, and that he had rediscovered it and is now restoring it to the Christian people. How else can we interpret his words to the charismatic christians that they must start their work by evangelizing within the Church - teaching Catholics the Gospel they do not know. Francis does indeed preach a new gospel for a new religion and a new church. He is dead set against Catholic tradition in any form. In fact, he claims that Catholic tradition is change, continual change, constant renewal, the Church must continually reinvent itself. The Church of Francis is always becoming. "Newness, for newness, fresh wineskins for new wine. And do not be afraid to change things according to the law of the Gospel. … For new wine, fresh wineskins. And for this reason the Church asks us, all of us, for a few changes. She asks us to put aside the decadent structures; we don't need them. Instead to take up new wineskins, those of the Gospel." Thus he repeatedly repeated the repetition of his message in the same words throughout his homily.

Not long ago, Francis informed us that Communists were really secret Christians because they understand that the Gospel centers on the poor. Now he insists that the Gospel is really all about change. Like Captain Kirk of the spaceship Enterprise, Francis is boldly taking the Church where no Catholic has gone before - certainly no Catholic pope has gone before. (Oddly enough, the name "kirk" means "church"). But instead of Captain Kirk of the starship Enterprise, we now have Captain Francis of the starship Modernize.