PopeWatch: Third Times the Charm

Oh joy:

“Soon the Pope himself will release an encyclical on the theme of human fraternity,” Pompili said during a recorded address on Wednesday. 

The bishop made the remark as he signed the “charter of intent” with which he established a committee for the celebration of the 800th anniversary of both the Franciscan Rule and the first “presepe” or Nativity scene. St. Francis himself created the first manger scene in the village of Greccio in 1223. 

The author of the article, Fr. Pietro Messa is certain that this new encyclical will build upon the document on “human fraternity for world peace” that Pope Francis signed with Islamic leader Ahmad Al-Tayyeb in Abu Dhabi  on February 4, 2010. 

Mess noted also that this will be Pope Francis’ third encyclical, following “Lumen Fidei” in 2013 and “Laudato si’” in 2015.   

According to Cindy Wooden of the Catholic News Service, the Vatican has not confirmed Pompili’s statement. 

“The Vatican has not confirmed that an encyclical is in the works, but it would make sense that a social encyclical on a post-COVID vision would build upon an affirmation that all human beings were created by God with equal dignity and that solutions to the world’s most pressing problems must be found together and must benefit all,” she stated. 

Pope Francis’ Abu Dhabi document on “human fraternity” was widely criticized for stating, among other things, that the “pluralism and the diversity of religions” are “willed by God.” This statement appeared in the following passage: 

Freedom is a right of every person: each individual enjoys the freedom of belief, thought, expression and action. The pluralism and the diversity of religions, color, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings. This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom of belief and the freedom to be different derives. Therefore, the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected, as too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept. 

Go here to read the rest.  Well, if it comes out PopeWatch will analyze it.  Let’s get a head start:

Every day, through the stony streets, the tumbrils now jolted heavily, filled with Condemned. Lovely girls; bright women, brown-haired, black-haired, and grey; youths; stalwart men and old; gentle born and peasant born; all red wine for La Guillotine, all daily brought into light from the dark cellars of the loathsome prisons, and carried to her through the streets to slake her devouring thirst. Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;–the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Leftists, and our Pope is most definitely that, have a dismaying aptitude for seeking to produce Heaven on Earth, while actually bringing about cosplaying versions of the Other Place.  Christ taught us all we need to know about fraternity in that we are all children of a loving God.  Anything else on that subject tends to diminish that great truth as we make fraternity depend on embracing the popular intellectual superstitions and cants of today.