Sandro Magister explains our “low-intensity” Pope:
The most updated diagnoses of the religious phenomenon in the West converge in defining it as “low-intensity.” Fluid, with no more dogmas, without binding authorities. Highly visible, but irrelevant in the public arena.
Even Catholicism is reshaping itself this way. And the pontificate of Francis is adapting in a spectacular way to this new phenomenology, in its successes and in its limitations.
As a good Jesuit, Jorge Mario Bergoglio instinctively goes along with the signs of the times. He is not even trying to stem the growing diversification within the Church. On the contrary, he is encouraging it.
He is not responding to the cardinals who submit “doubts” to him and ask him to bring clarity.
He is giving free rein to even the most reckless opinions, like those of the new general of the Jesuits, the Venezuelan Arturo Sosa Abascal, according to whom it is not possible to know what Jesus really said “because there were no recorders.”
And he himself has been telling some whoppers, without any fear of toppling the fundamental articles of the Creed.
Last March 17, during an audience at the Apostolic Palace, to explain what he means by “unity in difference” he even said that “inside the Holy Trinity they’re all arguing behind closed doors, but on the outside they give the picture of unity.”
On April 19, in a general audience Saint Peter’s Square, he said that the death of Jesus is a historical fact but his resurrection is not, it is only an act of faith.
On April 4, in a homily at Santa Marta, he said that on the Cross “Jesus made himself devil, serpent.”
And these are only the latest of a not-small collection of reckless statements, which however glide away like water on marble, without effect on public opinion both Catholic and not, for which this pope continues to be popular in part because he will say anything, with tranquility.
Go here to read the rest. Argument among the Holy Trinity? Is there something mentally wrong with our Pope?
Heretic! Jorge Bergoglio is a heretic!
Agreed, Lucius, agreed.
“….. arguing behind closed doors!”
Oh of course they are.
There’s the difficult son and the Jewish Mother who’s constantly nagging her husband, the Holy Spirit. The Father Almighty is shaking his head about the trash not being taken out!
The trash will be taken out soon.
Very soon!
Until then the heritic Francis can give us more deep insights into this “unity in difference.”
btw……My second grade teacher Mr. Springer would say; “If it looks like dog poop leave it alone. Let the dogs roll around in it. It makes perfect sense to them.”
“Is there something mentally wrong with our Pope?”
It is the most charitable explanation.
I asked our priest about the phrase no longer in the Creed, He descended into hell” as in “crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell and on the the third day, He arose from the dead and ascended into heaven seated at the right hand of God”. The priest said that the Jews’ concept of hell was that it was the souls of the dead waiting place until the Messiah came. After His coming He would transport them to Paradise. Perhaps Pope Francis in his Santa Marta homily has twisted that part of the old Creed? Otherwise the brain tumor is back!
CAM, I’ve been told that you / we are dealing with an Old English language translation issue for the name of the realm of the dead. The Old English term for the realm of the dead is NOW our name for the realm of the Damned. It had been decided, by whom I know not, that it would be too problematic to change the Apostles Creed to a more correct translation.
If someone knows something else, please let me know.
In The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, stigmatist and visionary, Anne Catherine Emmerich describes Our Lord’s descent into Limbo to free the patriarchs and His descent into hell.
“Not one iota of the law can be changed”
JFK and Mary De Voe, thank you for your insight.
Pope Francis motto appears to be: Truth is whatever you wish, do what you want, we are all saved. Now who is going to have a problem with that thinking? Very few, it would seem.
The pope seems uninformed about the opinions of the infidels. For them, everything about Jesus is about faith, for they question every statement in the New Testament, even though the history they accept without question is based on documents a thousand years newer than Scripture.
John F Kennedy wrote, “CAM, I’ve been told that you / we are dealing with an Old English language translation issue for the name of the realm of the dead”
The original Latin of the Apostles’ Creed has “descendit ad inferos” – He descended to those below, although some manuscripts have infernis,” – The places below.
I take it to mean the Underworld, or those in it.
Compare 1 Pet 3:18-20 He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit, in which He also went and preached to the spirits in prison [τοῖς ἐν φυλακῇ πνεύμασιν] who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah…