An apocryphal story from the Middle Ages has Pope Innocent III showing Saint Francis the papal treasury, and saying, “Peter can no longer say silver and gold I have none.” Saint Francis responded, “And neither can Peter any longer say, “Stand and walk!”
The Pope is drawing the line at certain contributions:
Go here to read the rest. I wonder how the Pope plans to enforce this policy, or was this merely feel good empty rhetoric from the Pope? Outside of mobsters, I can’t personally recall Catholic clerics refusing money from any source, especially from governments whose source of money might often be quite eloquent as to how their governments treat the average taxpayer.
I hope this new policy does not apply to clerics in charge of Catholic schools, because the teachers and others who work for such schools tend to be badly paid, at least in comparison to those who teach at other public and private schools. Certainly the leftist regimes that the Pope has looked on with favor in South America produce endless numbers of people who are “exploited, mistreated, enslaved and badly paid”. PopeWatch hereby proclaims this Pope not the Pope of Mercy, but the Pope of Irony.
What about the pro-abortion politician he praised? She literally had the blood of the unborn on her hands:
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/pope-francis-italy-bonino/2016/02/27/id/716397/
We need an end to Popes talking and writing for one hundred years. I contend that these media oriented soundbites and speeches by the last three Popes ( Benedict…” preemptive war is not in the catechism”) have replaced the actual job of the papacy…in this case, actually making sure the dioceses of the world actually reject bad money. That would take phone work to Cardinals of every region and follow up phone work. These three last Popes have meant well by talking/ writing rather than ruling and administrating 8 hours a day. But each of them led to this reality factoid: 95% of 191 Catholic colleges studied by the Cardinal Newman society allow part of the night dorm visits between the opposite sex.
http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4708/Visitation-Policies-at-Catholic-Colleges-Should-Promote-Chastity-Not-%e2%80%98Hook-Up%e2%80%99-Culture.aspx#.dpuf
Authoring/ traveling/ very verbal not in the office Popes as opposed to phone working Popes leads to chaos in our institutions. While Benedict was writing about Fathers of the Church and saints and books on Christ, administrative problems were growing and growing and when they forced themselves on him in a tidal wave, he resigned.
While St. John Paul II was writing the TOB series, boys were being abused in multiple countries. We need Popes to work 8 hour jobs of ruling not writing. Francis continues the famous author series. We need them to stop the verbiage and work the phone eight hours a day to Cardinals who then work the phones to Bishops who then work the phones to college heads and hospital heads etc. Our institutional chaos is papal fault. No one is working…they’re saying or writing for history. Can we get a Pope who works the phone….lol?
The money itself has no odor of course, only the actions or expectations accompanying it.
I wonder of the pope is chafing under the pressure of the German cardinals, whose apparent desire to change church teaching can be vclearly tied to money flow.
Pope if irony!
Well said.
Speaking of irony…
Reverend Anne Fowler, an Episcopal priest from New England, said her;”abortion allowed her to finish DIVINITY school and become a priest.” Emphasis added.
That kind of divinity doesn’t resemble Christ, but it does resemble the old serpent.
http://www.lifenews.com/2016/03/02/episcopalian-priest-aborted-her-baby-so-she-could-finish-divinity-school/
Pope Of irony. ( not if. )
Anzlyne – good point.
Does that include the money Catholic Charities takes from the federal government, gained by taxing hard working Americans who did not consent to it being given to Catholic Charities, which must then follow Caesar’s restrictions on its use?
Money from the same government which allows the Department of Justice to prosecute the Little Sisters of the Poor and EWTN and others for taking exception to the HHS mandate reversal of President Obama due to their particular religion, the same government that legislates for the freedom to amass nearly 60,000,000 deaths and now profits from the body parts sales. Isn’t that a sin against the Holy Spirit?
Well, this unique pontiff, along with all his other baggage, is very good at giving away what is not his to give, and therefore of no painful consequence to him.
I am for example referring to his decision to sell off Castelgandolfo, the historic papal escape and art treasure in the Mt Alban hills, which really belongs to the people of the Catholic Church, not to him to give it away.
But it rather fits with Bergoglio giving away Catholic doctrine (salvation, contraception, anything else) so he can posture to the world. I long for his accounting of his misadventures to a Higher Authority. Usquequo, Domine?
All true Steve Phoenix
Maybe some good Catholic could by Cadtelgandolfo and hold it until the next pope.
Anzlyne.
On a much, much smaller scale. The parishioners at a parish I attended purchased all of the Holy statues that were going to be sold when the decision was made to renovate the chapel. This was of course in ’65 or so, newly highjacking VII. The Polish parishioners even managed to save the Communion rail.
In 2002 they fully restored the chapel the way it was.
Your idea is beautiful!
As with so much shows of “poverty”, the Pope’s actions are making others materially poor:
http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/07/31/pope-francis-shuns-summer-palace-again-locals-say-town-losing-tourism/
One word describing the Pope’s prudential judgments come to mind: “fallible.”
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You can tell it’s Lent.
Fallible is kind and accurate.
Let’s not forget to pray for him.
He is in DEEP need.