The Pope is not just a bad pope; he is a bad man.
PopeWatch: A Mean and Petty Man
- 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.
Summa:
“Opposed to this virtue of magnificence is the vice of littleness or Meanness. This vice either (a) aspires to little things only, when greater should be attempted; or (b) exercises a pinchpenny care which refuses to noble enterprise its full greatness of execution.”
There we were all nervous on the Boat with the Lord asleep. What eventually has done the Francis Project in was itself.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio is a heretic, too.
https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-urges-world-religions-unite-against-environmental-devastation-2023-12-03/
I wish this were particular to this Francis.
I have witnessed many times and places in the Church today where the faithful are suddenly deprived of good things and priests and the only “notice” was through the grapevine.
Is this the “listening Church”? Is this the kind of “love” they’re offering?
Nevermind, I know the answer already.
Argentina just took a sharp turn to the libertarian-right in reaction to decades of misgovernment. Possibly the vote in the next conclave will profit from this example.
When Alexander VI died, Ferdinand and Isabella, los Reyes catolicos, ordered every church, chapel, and monastery bell to be rung and the Te Deum in thanksgiving. Alexander VI compared to Francis is a veritable Urban II. What would those monarchs decree for the passing away of Pope Frank, I wonder?
My understanding is that there are norms in canon law pertaining to taking away the benefices given to a prelate like Cardinal Burke. If a Cardinal were judged a manifest heretic or found guilty of a monstrous crime, naturally he could be stripped of the stipend and the accommodations that came with his red hat. I believe that was done with the former Cardinal McCarrick.
The difference of course is that even a terrible person like ex-Cardinal McCarrick was given due process. In contrast Cardinal Burke, who is accused of no crime other than annoying and embarrassing Francis, is deprived of his benefices without any reason given and canon law ignored.
Beth Cioffoletti misses the ominous nature of what Francis has done. This isn’t about how much Cardinal Burke used that apartment. There are probably scores of other Cardinals who also don’t spend much time in Rome (many, like Burke, because Francis has sidelined them). No, this is Francis using the power and majesty of the Petrine Office to settle scores with a man he dislikes (and probably envies— Cardinal Burke is clearly Francis’ intellectual superior). Only a vindictive little man would behave the way Francis has.
And for Francis this is a twofer. He has banished and injured a man he dislikes. He’s also put all other Cardinals and bishops on notice that he’s prepared to ignore every sordid sin in his friends, but delighted to abuse his authority to degrade those whom he dislikes.
Clinton is 100% right. And when Bergoglio goes, then I shall rejoice as Fr. J. reported King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella did at the passing of Pope Alexander VI. Until Latin America gets straightened out, no more Latino Popes. Would that Cardinal Robert Sarah were Pope!
Cd Burke DOES have a senior job in the Vatican. Two in fact. He remains a working member of the Apostolic Signatura (the Church’s highest Court) as well as a member of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. So apparently he’s now expected to do those two jobs for zero pay.