Color PopeWatch shocked:
Under normal circumstances, Floyd’s killing at the hands of a white police officer and the global protests denouncing racism and police brutality might have drawn a muted diplomatic response from the Holy See. But in a U.S. election year, the intensity and consistency of the Vatican’s reaction suggests that, from the pope on down, it is seeking to encourage anti-racism protesters while making a clear statement about where American Catholics should stand ahead of President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term in November.
Go here to read the rest. Our always political Pope has ever been the chaplain of the Trump Resistance Movement. Since he has solved all the problems besetting the Church he has a lot of time to go dragon slaying.
Every time I hear the pope utter a leftist talking point, the more convinced I become that the 2013 Conclave was held at that year’s USCCB General Meeting as opposed to the Sistine Chapel.
How about a Bergoglio “surprise” visit to a USCCB meeting, most likely in late September or early October?
Francis should invite the Rev Al Sharpton to the Vatican for a strategy meeting on how to retake the White House in 2020.
“At least $50 million a year allotted for programs that advance international religious” from President Trump’s executive order of 06/03/20. Yet no mention of this by the Pope. Surely the Vatican receives a news feed from UPI. The news story is not accurate in some respects but the $50M is.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/06/03/Trump-signs-international-religious-freedom-executive-order-visits-shrine/3101591165768/
We need more Archbishop Viganos and less of the Lavender Mafia and their pope!
We are fortunate enough to have a long history of less than perfect popes and less than perfect priests which allows us to understand that the Church is much bigger and holier than the failings of a few fallen men in Roman collars.
I still await a strong statement from our Catholic shepherds demanding the rioters/protesters also focus on the slaughter of little black babies and the sale of their parts. Failure to do so means that they don’t really believe that “Black lives matter” at all.
The thing about the Pope, in contradistinction to his two predecessors, is that there isn’t much there there. He has no scholarship, no signature interests, nothing he’s pondering and working on for his own edification or for formal teaching. His head is filled with the flotsam-and-jetsam of what he reads in the papers and gossip among the gamesmen in the Vatican.
the admixture of politics and religion has historically confounded us Even in the time of Christendom. The 20th century even more so because of the fracturing of the Enlightenment and the Reformation. I guess the Ostpolitik of the Vatican under Pius civil has had the greatest bad effect until now
I see spell check changed my “XI” To “civil”
That article is what I’d expect from CBS. No understanding of religion in the mainstream press. Of course the pope talked about an unjust action that has led to worldwide protests. There’s nothing unusual about that. That happens every year, not just election years.
Religion coverage in the mainstream press always plays it up as conservative versus liberal. Now, this pope is more political and more politically liberal than any in my lifetime, but still they somehow overspin it.
An abysmal abortion rate, fatherlessness and we get a sermon on how we should not support a president who’s tough on open borders.
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You bring up an excellent point. I find Pope Francis to be a spiritual hot mess. I would pity anyone who had him as a spiritual director, it would be a case of the blind leading the blind. The most charitable interpretation I can place on his behavior is that he is a house divided. Self-schismatic as it were.