Never underestimate the role of simple malice in motivating the Pope. He is a man of many hates and he often acts on those hates.
PopeWatch: Francis in Malice Land
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.
This explains much.
One cannot force blind obedience.
One decides to obey or it is not obedience.
Damian Thompson seems to me (I am Brazilian) that he is describing Lula, hypocritical, vindictive, and power-loving. Such is Francis.
God made all things and keeps them in existence because God is good because God is God.
From one instant to the next God keeps all things in existence. From one breath to the next breath God keeps all creatures and all creation in existence.
Some people try to reject God, they call themselves nones or atheists or agnostics. These people deny the existence of God in Jesus Christ, the Revelation of God. These same people cannot deny that God of creation keeps all creation in existence, namely God keeps these people in existence from one breath to their next breath, from one instant to their next instant in time and as well as in their coming eternity. And in their coming eternity God keeps their souls’ immortality existent.
All persons exist at the good will of God. All persons exist at the will of God because God is omnipresent, that is present to all creatures and all creation without past or future because God is God.
And in God’s omnipresence to all at all times, God is present in the Real Presence of the Holy Eucharist.
It cannot be otherwise because God is God.
Mary De Voe
Not buying Damian Thompson’s thesis.