PopeWatch: Good Question
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
If he had said he had Covid, all those sheeple opposite him would be masked up or on a Zoom meeting.
Every time I hear he has a health problem…it just gets my hopes up that my prayers were finally answered.
If he is that unwell why doesn’t he step down? With the risk of sounding cold-hearted, his victim-complex is getting tiring. It’s not about him it’s about the role. If he can’t do the role without making it about himself then step down Pope.
My 88-year-old Dad (still with both lungs) gets bronchitis most winters and is laid low with antibiotics for a time. I’m not getting what seems a contrast between PF’s self-reporting and his appearances.
I agree wit Dave RX. Please, Lord Jesus, have mercy and deliver us from a petty, vindictive tyrant and his secular counterpart, a senile geriatric imbecile.
I think he is indirectly saying “go easy on me and how I’m managing things because I’m unwell” as a way to dampen any criticism of him l.
I don’t doubt he may be unwell however, when that is your opening angle when dealing with audiences then it’s suspect that is the reason he is saying it.
In contrast, St JP2 was extremely unwell and it got to the point when it was physically obvious that the Parkinson had overtaken his ability to manage independently and yet he simply dealt with it and didn’t use it to define or excuse his role as Pope.
Look- just pray for our Pope- for his soul particularly.