Pope Francis never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
PopeWatch: Pretty Much
- 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.
Impressive!
And the Pope is………,,Catholic? 😂
This isn’t a missed opportunity. It’s intentional. They’re just the wrong kind of Catholic. You know, one that believes the Faith.
The days of holy men like Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI are over. I will also add what I was told in AA a long time ago: when you have an abusive father, run away from him.
Which of these things is not like….the other?
Throw in a large number of SC Justices as well. The Know-Nothings of the 1850s would have a collective apoplexy.
A late entry in the 2025 Predictions file: one or more bishops will announce that all Catholics in Trump’s Cabinet, or at least those responsible for immigration policy, are forbidden from receiving Communion in his diocese. I would not rule out the possibility (though I believe it’s unlikely) that they all get formally excommunicated by the pope.
This could get very messy, which, by Francis’s own statement, is his style …
It would be nice to have a Holy Father who cared for souls.
The Francis team threatened Raymond Arroyo with excommunication. I am told innocent or not excommunication must be observed. (but not by God)
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Lucius QC – “The days of holy men like Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI” are NOT over. Sometimes, I think we must get through bad times to appreciate the good men and women in our midst. We Catholics have been through incredibly difficult, evil times – persecution, Reformation, more persecution, the Black Plague, the Spanish Flu, horrible wars – including WWI and WWII, and Covid. And we survived and grew stronger. I have no doubt we will get through this even stronger than before, and that the gates of hell will NOT prevail against the Church.
Mind blowing!!
The Trump Administration is more Catholic than the Deep Church Vatican.