As PopeWatch has often noted, the Pope just has a few ideas rattling around in his brain and he constantly recurs to them. Many times he has belabored “fundamentalists” and he does so again. When he uses the term, erroneously, in reference to Catholics, he clearly has in mind both Catholics who worship at the traditional Mass and any Catholics more orthodox and/or conservative than him, which would encompass a majority of practicing Catholics. A shepherd who hates most of his sheep? Heckuva job Conclave of 2013, heckuva job.
PopeWatch: Fundamentalists Again
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
How about a purported representative for the Shepherd who hates his master’s own words as dangerously fundamentalist? Francis’ problem is that he thinks he’s the Shepherd.
Could he take a sabbatical in central China…say a few years? It might broaden his views and it would show “some” solidarity to Cardinal Zen.
A case study in asking for forgiveness too.
It sure would help the Catholic world at large.
Christendom’s bad stepfather is just a mean-spirited version of Grandpa Simpson.
If that doesn’t work, imagine the crank elderly uncle on Facebook who can’t stop posting the same stupid angry memes about people who don’t agree with his political views.
It’s a measure of how tediously repetitive he is that you know what he’s going to say every time. There’s a very short list of things he bangs on about, and it never changes.
Which, given his advocacy for the fresh and novel, is an amusing irony. “The Spirit” sure isn’t giving him any new material.
Even BEFORE my conversion, I was praying for Pope Francis’ conversion
If I were pope, I’d meet one on one with a rabbi and call it a “meeting of all the great religions”.
A soul in the state of staleness usually harps on about the same things. The Pope is coming across as increasingly bitter. Maybe he is sick? Who knows. Nothing to do with his age (more an observance on his emotional and mental state)…but, If he can’t do the job with the effort, vigour, and love it deserves then there is nothing wrong with stepping down. Perhaps one good (brave) voice in his inner circle needs to put this idea forward to him…
If that doesn’t work, imagine the crank elderly uncle on Facebook who can’t stop posting the same stupid angry memes about people who don’t agree with his political views.
You got something against crank elderly uncles? The meme pushers in our families aren’t the elderly uncles.
Whenever, Pope Frank opens his mouth, I open my list of logical fallacies and count how many boxes he checks.