The Pope long ago gave up any entitlement to the benefit of the doubt. What this pontificate has accomplished is historic. Catholics who embrace the teachings of the Church for centuries have looked to the Pope. That instinct and impulse has been broken. Pope Francis has radically diminished the influence of the office of the papacy among Catholics. What has been built up since the Counter Reformation has been brought down by one deeply unpleasant man who seeks to implement a Leftist agenda under the color of Catholicism. Pope Francis is a living embodiment of the maxim that it is easier to destroy than to build.
Few comments can explain it better than that. Beautiful!
In this day of instant and near total information of our Church teachings and its history, it’s like having a spiritual GPS and Google maps–we can drive our selves for a while, since the temporary chauffer has taken the wrong road to the left.
Just to add to my earlier comment. What Francis has accomplished is not necessarily all bad. People seeking the truth and a deeper faith, because of his secular political confusion, have got to seek truth far more than in the past when they casually assumed truth in whatever a man of the cloth said. Now they ‘ll probably know why they believe the faith they profess.
Yeah, we’ve had bad popes. We’ve also had 42 antipopes. There are two men in white, one who acts like a devil, one who doesn’t. Are you 100% sure you call the correct man “Pope”?
Yep, thanks to the resignation of the Pope Emeritus.
For the first time in a while, Pontiff Bergoglio destroyed my spiritual equilibrium with what he told Biden.
But then I realized that a tardigrade could leap over the pontiff’s standard for a “good Catholic” and couldn’t limbo underneath it.
I mean, think about it: this is a guy who bragged about robbing a corpse at a funeral, committed simple battery on an altar boy because the latter was holding his hands folded in prayer, constantly gossips about people he doesn’t like and expressed schadenfreude about a dangerously-ill colleague. And that’s just four examples off the top of my head.
He’s a bad, abusive human being, period. And he wants his words to hurt you and throw you off your stride.
Don’t act like him and you’re already a light-years-better Catholic. And never stop praying for this lost man.
The Pope reminds me of Eddie Albert’s character in the movie Attack! (1956) one of the best war flicks with Jack Palance, Buddy Ebsen and Lee Marvin.
https://www.tcm.com/video/206918/attack-movie-clip-court-martial-talk
In real life, as opposed to reel life, Albert was a hero during World War II, earning a Bronze Star with a V for Valor at Tarawa for rescuing 75 stranded Marines while under heavy machine gun fire. Playing an immoral coward demonstrated his acting chops.
Pope Francis has become Machiavellian… “cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics”.
I sincerely believe this of the Pope. Yes, he called abortion murder then went on talking to dismiss it as deserving of pastoral mercy and compassion. That is Machiavellian. He used silence about the baby murder of abortion to give Biden permission to continue to receive Communion when that is against everything the Catholic Church stands for. He has fooled many people who spend ink trying to figure out if PF really said what Biden asserts. It doesn’t matter, the Pope silence about abortion before and after the meeting exposes his duplicity.
Pope Francis is trying to slyly rewrite God’s law, it is Machiavellian.
I guess the real question is why would he be doing this..? Not sure this has ever been answered.
I blame Benedict.
To answer your question it would take someone who can read souls. By that I mean who can tell if someone is in a state of grace or not.
The pope needs our prayers and a lightening bolt on the way to Damascus for a conversion.
At this point I don’t really care if this man has a Damascus moment or not. I would be perfectly content to see him burn in Hell. There comes a point where you have to wash your hands of responsibility for someone’s salvation and just say “Let him be treated as one of the Gentiles”.
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G.Poulin- for the sake of your own soul, don’t wish hell upon the Pope or anyone.
Cam- yes I always wonder the Pope’s motives. Usually motives and intentions answer many questions.