In the long history of Mother Church, there have been all sorts of popes: smart, not so smart, holy, not so holy, good, bad, etc. However, almost all of them understood that their prime duty was to defend the Faith. More then a few of them in carrying out this duty paid with their lives. Pope Francis, sadly, is not exceptional in his stupidity, his venom and even in his moral corruption. He is exceptional in neglecting the prime duty of a pope. Heckuva job Conclave of 2013, heckuva job.
Doing the Job This Pope Won’t Do, a Continuing Series
- 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.
Power corrupts. Power will bring out the bad qualities in anyone. If they are doing it without God in their focus. It’s unfortunate.
God condescends to use our powers if we don’t spoil His plan with ours. – Bl. Fr. Salonus Casey
With God all things are possible.
Without Him, things become confusing to say the least.
Pray for the Pope.
I no longer believe that neither the president nor pope were duly elected; but that both circumvented either the electoral or ecclesiastical process.
It could be a mental coping mechanism, or it might not be, but it certainly makes me happier. It just feels right.
Sensus fidei.
Someone on this site said a long time ago that is still very true: the highest honor Pope Francis wishes to receive is the Nobel Peace Prize. I believe he values that prize more than being pope, and almost everything he says and does reflects that: his acquiescence to Chinese authority, his downplay of the worldwide abortion issue, his disparagement of overtly religious people and anything that resembles proselytism, his almost singular focus on “merchants of death” being responsible for war, his allowance for atheists to be in heaven based on their good works, and his dilution of the Catholic identity into the mundane. This all goes along with past winners. So, why would we expect a man who values such a secular prize say boo about the Olympics?
Just maybe he’s too busy writing the forward to Cardinal Fernandez’s latest work;
Orgasmic meditations,The hidden fruit of forbidden love.
I hope I don’t have to confess this, but I prefer Pope Alexander VI.
Pope Alexander VI had the knowledge or the sloth to allow Queen Isabela to handle the Church in Spain.
Fr. Eric, Perpahps this book answers your either/or question on Pope Alexander VI and her Most Catholic Majesty Queen Isabella: The Patronato Real: Royal Patronage and the Spanish Empire (1486-1831): VOLUME II IN THE ECCLESIAL PRIVILEGE TRILOGY by Reverend Father Andrew J. Heintz | May 23, 2024
A plug for our resident priest
The current Pope is evil – period. May God Almighty depose him and anathematize him and all his works of iniquity and depravity.