Inroduction
- Title is a quote from Saint Francis.
2.Saint Francis gets the blame for inspiring the Pope to write this encyclical.
3.Pope misinterprets the encounter between Saint Francis and Sultan Malik-el-Kamil, leaving out that the Saint wanted to convert the Sultan.
4.Pope says that Saint Francis believes God is love, which misstates what the Saint believed about God.
5.The Pope is in favor of human fraternity.
6.Yep the Pope really loves fraternal love.
7.Pope uses covid-19 to push the solutions to human ills that he has been pushing throughout his pontificate.
8.Pope wants an emphasis on fraternity to have humanity consider itself to be members of one single human family.
Chapter One-Dark Clouds Over a Closed World
9.Pope wants to point out in this Chapter what hinders human fraternity.
10.Pope likes a post war trend he discerns to greater human integration.
11.Whose to blame for a slowing or reversal of this trend? Nasty nationalists and populists!
12.Another villian is introduced: Global capitalism.
13.Young are bone ignorant of history and too likely to celebrate individualism uber alles.
14.Pope attacks cultural colonization and words like freedom being emptied of meaning.
15.Decries modern politics which thrives on polarization.
16.Attacks politics which seek to treat people as enemies.
17.Attacks capitalism as silencing the voice of environmentalism.
18.Attacks treating other people as expendable like the unborn or the elderly. Attacks wasting food.
19.A decline in the birthrate and a lack of care for the elderly are signs of selfishness.
20.Pope attacks racism and reducing labor costs.
21.Wealth has increased but so has inequality.
22.Pope condemns inequality as to weath.
23.Pope takes a knee to the feminazis.
24.Condemns modern day slavery, especially the criminal human trafficking trade.
25.Condemns war, racial persecution, religious persecution and terrorism as constituting a third world war.
26.We don’t trust each other because we lack “common horizons”.
27.Walls are bad.
28.Pope hates Mafias. (PopeWatch assumes the Mafia is opposed to many walls also.)
29.Development in advanced nations, although undeniable, does not lead to a more humane future.
30.All of humanity in same boat. Decries global indifference.
31.Wants technological growth with more social inclusion.
32.Covid-19 momentarily created a sense of global community.
33.Bashes free markets. Somehow ties this in with reaction to covid-19.
34.Pope does not call covid-19 divine retribution but says the world is crying out in rebellion.
35.Fears that humanity will lose the lesson of covid-19. (For the Pope the lesson seems to be a firm embrace of socialism.)
36.Condemns consumerism and individualism.
37.Opposes opposition to admitting migrants or limiting foreign aid giveaways to feckless nations.
38.Posits a right not to emigrate, to remain in one’s homeland.
39.Condemns any opposition to migrants coming into a nation.
40.Europe can balance rights of citizens and welcoming migrants.
41.Condemns opposition to migrants as possibly racist.
43.Modern technology ending personal privacy.
44.Condemns digital campaigns of hatred and distrust of others.
45.Attacks fake news and destructive ideologies. Not so veiled swipe at Trump.
46.Condemns destructive forms of fanaticism among religious believes. Defamation and slander can become commonplace, even in Catholic media. (Darn those blogs!)
47.True wisdom demands an encounter with reality. Digital worlds can prevent such encounters. (The Pope has a point here.)
48.We don’t listen to each other in the digital world, but simply argue.
49.A new lifestyle is emerging, where we create only what we want and exclude all that we cannot control or know instantly and superficially. True.
50.We need to have real conversations to understand each other.
More tomorrow.
Thanks Donald. There is much in the above statements that orthodox Catholics can agree. However, there is lots of Francis double talk, ambiguities and contradictions within the document. For a fuller exposition listen to this broadcast by Anthony Stein and Trad Patrick.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/lH7JIJcG3zay/
And for those with little time here is Anthony Stein on YouTube with a short version.
13.Young are bone ignorant of history and too likely to celebrate individualism uber alles.
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Well I agree with Pope Francis about the young being bone ignorant of history, it has made them socialists/fascists/communists. (At least in the States; I do not know about Europe, Africa, or China.)
That was above and beyond Pope Watch’s duty to slog through that mess and then analyze and summarize it for us. Pope Watch probably needed a good stiff drink after that work! Thank you, Don!
Thank you Cathy. I have always had a fondness for reducing statements to their essence.
32.Covid-19 momentarily created a sense of global community.
A moment so fleeting, I missed it entirely.
Hmm.. well I guess we have the Chinese Communist Party to thank for that.
This just in from The Babylon Bee.
https://babylonbee.com/news/pope-francis-declares-that-the-catholic-church-will-no-longer-accept-donations-earned-via-capitalism/?utm_content=bufferf4712&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR167HgnFKsobLiz6lrKzXlBcjtkSDpiyjc_KAc2uHYeW4Swuw_Ztazo0M8
Such a cliche of the Left…
To them, it is impossible to understand them and not agree. Otherwise you must have ulterior motives – like being racist or sexist.
I’m a little upset that he didn’t plant any seeds to the possibility of Greta becoming a Saint any time soon.
St. Greta the Green.
Earth’s best Hope.
~sarcasm alert ~
I doubt the man has ever had an original observation in his life.
I tend to doubt that he and his minions consulted any authorities either.
You mean other than himself?
I’ve slogged through three chapters. A papal document on human fraternity would be fine. However, he does not teach on the basis of Sculpture and Tradition. There’s nary a mention of Jesus and, if there is, it’s just to support Francis’ analysis of things. The first three chapters are mostly his musings and interpretation of social reality much of which is highly disputable. Chapter four tomorrow.