The Pope likes nothing better than trolling conservatives, except, perhaps, bashing Catholic faithful.
PopeWatch: Birds of a Feather
- 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.
Unfortunately,, he’s “doing” a heck of a lot more than just mere “trolling or bashing.”
It has to be via video … If Francis, the Clintons, Gavin Newsom, Jen Psaki and Wretched Gretchen were all in the same place at the same time, the chance of earthquake would be far too high.
May God Almighty depose and anathematize Jorge Mario Bergoglio and all his works.
Clinton might have enticed the rainbow mafia with a trip to Epstein’s island, but underage “girls” would be of no interest.
He’s got time to have a virtual conference with this lot, and he’s got time to receive both Biden and Pelosi when they dropped by for an audience. Yet when the elderly Cardinal Zen traveled to Rome from China in hopes of an audience with Francis with the aim of discussing the plight of Chinese Catholics, he was made to cool his heels for a couple of days before Francis’ staff told him the Pope couldn’t find the time for him.
And of course it’s been a long time since those four Cardinals submitted their Dubia regarding Amoris Laetitia. All Francis had to do was answer their five yes-or-no questions, but it’s been so long without a response that two of the four Cardinals have since died.
I get a sense that Francis has all the time in the world for certain world leaders of a particular political bent, and no time at all for Catholics and their concerns.
An awful man unworthy and unfit for the office he holds is in charge.
It would have been nice if Vatican I or II had thrown some safeties and accountability provisions in there somewhere, but neither did.
This was not only foreseeable, it was inevitable. The council fathers knew the history of the office, with bad men and those who cringed before or even tried to split the difference with heresy. They had the example of popes who had abused their offices for personal gain, base political motives, playing favorites, bowing before Caesar, etc.
But they charged ahead full steam anyway and gave him immediate and universal jurisdiction along with confirming infallibility. And then at Vatican II they further bid the faithful to pay attention to the pope’s manner of speaking to see what was binding.
The current Roman pontiff is all of the bad examples of Renaissance popes with the added bonus of loathing virtue. And there’s nothing that can be done save the time and chance that happeneth to us all. And here we are.
Smoke if you got ’em.
I told you he meets with anyone and everyone. This was probably paid PR too. Another disappointment.
I’m not a sede, but from a functional perspective an empty suit is not too far removed from an empty chair.
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There are days where the Church hierarchy looks like they are running the church of Cain.
While I don’t have quite the negative opinion of some about PF as some, I can not help but wonder what some of the electors were thinking that current world conditions required his qualifications. The combination of polyannish views and an attitude that negotiations can solve the gap between good and evil are so unrealistic that the mission of the Church itself looses credibility with nonbelievers. The advantage that most other pontiffs of this century had was that they had a clear view of the nature of evil and could deal with it. Lately, it seems that vision is rather distorted.
I don’t know why but I read that as “@GavinMcInnes”. That would be a much better event.