Never let it be said that Pope Francis ignores the really important issues:
Pope Francis has criticized the naming of the U.S. military’s biggest non-nuclear explosive as “the Mother of All Bombs”, saying the word “mother” should not be used in reference to a deadly weapon.
The U.S. Air Force dropped such a bomb, officially designated as the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) on suspected ISIS fighters in eastern Afghanistan last month. The nickname was widely used in briefings and reporting on the attack.
“I was ashamed when I heard the name,” Pope Francis told an audience of students on Saturday. “A mother gives life and this one gives death, and we call this device a mother. What is happening?”
Go here to read the rest.   PopeWatch wonders if the Pope is simply ignorant that in English the phrase “mother of” is slang for greatest or largest, or if he is just being his usual leftist self, more concerned about a meaningless nickname than he is about the threat posed by the murderers of ISIS that the weapon was deployed against?
Someone let the pontiff know that one of the leaders of the Venezuelan opposition “disappeared” in prison in April and the government offered a fraudulent “proof of life.”
Oh, wait–Venezuela is run by a left-wing tyrant. Nevermind. I’m sure the guy deserved it, then.
Back to criticizing “the rigid.”
I am thinking of the frequently seen image on the Internet of a smiling American GI with a cup of coffee, with the caption, “How about a nice cup of shut the #### up?”
Maybe someone should explain that, in English and Arabic at the very least, “mother of all” is a term meaning “extremely large.”
I find it interesting in spending a long time observing this pontiff that he almost never mentions his parents (and, correct me please, I have never found him describe at all anything about his railroad accountant father: therein lies a tale).
Bergoglio’s rejection of virtually all Catholic tradition is a rejection at a much more fundamental level.
Steve, you are on to something. God is a loving father. You either have that conception of him, or you don’t. If you don’t, it is likely your theology will be off. Pope Francis appears to me to be the cool uncle. Whereas an all-loving father only wants whats best for his children and sees their potential even when others don’t, the cool uncle leads them down the wrong path because he wants to be liked more than he wants what’s best for his niece or nephew. The cool uncle almost enjoys undermining parental authority.
I always thought that the MOAB name came as a parody of Saddam Hussein’s (and his lackeys) continual use of the “mother of …” phrase. Were there any comments about that back then?