Burn of the Day
- 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.
The man has nothing to offer but but platitudes, straw men and misdirection. Francis puts the “Peter” in the Peter Principle.
Worst Pope in centuries.
It seems this pope does nothing but bless those who exploit people.
Who is this entrepreneur who apparently exploits people which the Pope has given a blessing to? Name names Pope Francis. Nobody forced you to bless them!
That’s not the same as “blessing” the sinful lifestyle of two people with a disordered sexuality. You are not doing your job. Your job to be exact is leading those, in no uncertain terms, back to the correct path towards God. That’s loving the sinner. That’s what a good father would do.
As I wrote elsewhere on social media:
In recent news announcements the Pope has stated that we are hypocrites for excusing a blessing of a businessman who may exploit others while condemning the blessing of a homosexual. He characterizes his own Fiducia Supplicans (Fallacia Superans) incorrectly. That document refers NOT to blessing a homosexual but to blessing couples in an irregular situation (e.g., homosexual couple, divorced and remarried couple, etc.). Couples unrepentently living outside the commandment of Scripture cannot be blessed. 1st Corinthians 6:9-10 makes clear that μαλακός (receivers of male penetration) and ἀρσενοκοίτης (penetrators of males), like πόρνος (fornicators) and μοιχός (adulterers) and the rest in the list, shall NOT inherit the Kingdom of God. But a homosexual (either μαλακός or ἀρσενοκοίτης) trying to repent and amend his life should and must be blessed. The same is true of a businessman who like Zacchaeus the tax collector in Luke 19:1-10 repents; that person should and must be blessed. The rule is what Jesus gave to the adulteress in John 8:11: “Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again.” The Pope’s authorization to bless same sex couples (see section III, Blessings of Couples in Irregular Situations and of Couples of the Same Sex, of Fiducia Supplicans) does nothing but grease the skids to hell for these people. The loving thing – true caritas or ἀγάπη in Greek – is to tell the homosexual couple that they must repent, amend their lives, and stop homosexual activity. This isn’t a matter of judging a person to hell, but of loving a person to heaven. And Pope Francis never ever does that at all.
We call that comparing apples to carburetors.
If he and that other celebrity Jesuit spent as much time and energy bringing people to repentance and into the Church as they do dismantling the Church to bring it to “their people,” how many souls would have been saved.
Like Francis would ever bless an entrepreneur …
To be a valid comparison, Scrooge himself would have to ask for the popes blessing that he could better exploit Cratchit.
I wish I believed Francis was stupid enough not to understand the difference.
There are at least 3 logical fallacies in Pope’s words. It is so stupid that if the words were from another person, they do not deserve any answer.
Sin is sin no matter who does it. Pope Francis points out the splinter in my eye….