You are probably overly optimistic. Back in the seventies this was the trope of those eager to take the miracles out of the Gospels. Whether the Pope agrees with this, or uses this rubbish to foster his basic misunderstanding of economics, I will leave up to the reader.
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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.
I’ve heard this explanation of the miracle of the loaves and fishes before; that the food was always there and Jesus influenced the crowd to share. I was so gratified that when portrayed in The Chosen, there is no doubt that there was only five loaves and two fish and the baskets became filled to overflowing.
Thomas Jefferson also excised any miracles or supernatural events from his “Bible.” Trump shouldn’t be selling Bibles but at least they are not subjectively edited.
“After the miracle of the loaves and fishes, the crowd sought to make Jesus king by force, but He withdrew to a mountain alone to avoid this.”
Shouldn’t we all?
I have no words of wisdom to add. I despise, loathe, abhor, and hold in utter contempt and disdain this kind of liberal progressive re-interpretation of the plain meaning of Sacred Scripture. May Pope Leo XIV be deposed and anathematized.
Frank the hippie Pope needs to be updated.
Actually, I do have something more to add that His Holiness, being a Democrat from Chicago, doesn’t understand.
In 2nd Thessalonians 3:6-15 Saint Paul clearly negates the idea of free handouts by saying that if anyone will not work, neither should he eat. He wrote that after 1st Thessalonians in which he described the coming of the Lord at the Parousia. Some people at the Church in Thessaloniki got lazy, hearing that soon the Lord would come, and thought they would get free handouts from others sharing with them while they waited for the Parousia. Saint Paul trashed that idea. No work, no food: starve!
Then in John 6:22-27, the crowd followed Jesus around the lake after the multiplication of the loaves and fishes. Jesus clearly told them that they followed Him because their bellies were full, and they should work for the food that doesn’t perish but lasts for eternal life. Guess what, Folks! The crowd did NOT get another free handout! NO socialism. NO sharing. WORK for the food that doesn’t perish. See verse 27.
So when I hear hippie Bob from Chicago mouthing off this sharing nonsense, I get mad as he11. He should know better, and I think he does, but his Democrat Party ideology outweighs his theological sense. So yes, may God depose and anathematize him! I am sick and tired of this heretical crap.
I have started calling him FBM – Fr. Bob the Modernist. Pacifism, downplaying the supernatural, denial of national character. I remember hearing this sort of the nonsense as a kid in the 80’s. I guess this is the culmination of the Liberal Boomer Experience.
There’s no sugar-coating this. Denial of Christ’s miracles is heresy.
Leo needs to get pushback on this at least as fierce as what Francis faced over his religious indifferentism in Singapore, or John XXII’s denial of the Beatific Vision.