I am sure my list as to the last pope can be added to in the comboxes.
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- 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.
And Pope Leo XIV will not repudiate the manifest heterodoxies of his Marxist Peronist Caudillo predecessor. He says some correct things in the recent Crux interview, but he’s firmly a Post Vatican II man.
Francis’ manipulation of the various synods he convened made a mockery of the world’s bishops and reduced them to rubber stamps for his predetermined results. He dismissed bishops from their dioceses as if they were mere middle managers in a secular corporation and not successors of the Apostles with rights to a due process under Canon Law. He ignored Dubia humbly submitted by Cardinals. Despite his mouthing platitudes about respecting episcopal collegiality, Francis made it clear that the bishops were only tolerated if they did as they were told.
Rather than explain, persuade, reason with and build consensus; Francis silenced, degraded, and sidelined any bishop who had the temerity to question his chaotic agenda. Francis surrounded himself with a court of sycophants, opportunists and lickspittles— mostly because he appears to have disliked the company of men who either were brighter than him, or who had principles.
Francis wasn’t just a kidney stone of a pope. He was the kidney stone causing near fatal sepsis. If it wasn’t for Matt18:16 I’d be discouraged.
You missed a few of his greatest hits …
Pachamama worship
God wills a plurality of faiths
People don’t go to hell
God wills that adulterers remain in their pretend marital state
Just a few off the top of my head, I’m sure the good contributors here can think of more.
Seeing a picture of “Francis” I still feel a pit in my stomach, then I am vexed by the thought of needing to pray for an enemy of the Church -who was a pope! And by the thought of how an enemy of the Church -could have been a pope! Finally by the damage he’s done and the confusion he’s caused. I simply pray for the Church.
“Hhat did Francis pervert?” That that question can be asked in sincerity is proof of the darkness.
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So far, somewhat disappointed in Leo. Jorge Bergoglio was a 12 year hurricane, wreaking destruction everywhere. It would take Doomguy to clean up the mess.
I chuckle at the thought of the BFG9000 aimed at James Martin and his cohorts.