Posted on 12/08/2014 3:18:40 PM PST by cleghornboy
"God is good to me, he's bestowed on me a healthy dose of unawareness." Pope Francis, see here.
“From the start I said to myself: ‘Jorge, don't change, just keep on being yourself, because to change at your age would be to make a fool of yourself.’” (From the same article).
Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand reminds us that, "The capacity to grasp values, to affirm them, and to respond to them, is the foundation for realizing the moral values of man.
Now these marks can be found only in the man who possesses reverence. Reverence is the attitude which can be designated as the mother of all moral life, for in it man first takes a position toward the world which opens his spiritual eyes and enables him to grasp values. Consequently, in these chapters which deal with moral attitudes, i.e. attitudes which give a basis to the whole of moral life, and are presupposed for this life, we must first of all speak of this virtue.
The irreverent and impertinent man is the man incapable of any abandonment or subordination of self. He is either the slave of his pride, of that cramping egoism which makes him a prisoner of himself and blind to values
(Excerpt) Read more at lasalettejourney.blogspot.com ...
Boy howdy.
The word, inconsciencia, can mean unawareness or obliviousness. It can also mean recklessness, negligence or heedlessness, that is, a person who acts without considering the consequences of his actions or considering what anyone else thinks or knows.
What did he mean in this context? Most of the Spanish blogs I have read took it to mean recklessness or heedlessness. Not a good thing in a Pope.
He appears to be an optimist by his nature; seeking to view a void as a source of bounty.
Aw shucks it’s just ole innocent me.
That’s an endemic problem to humanity.
What does that mean?
The trouble is, the things we think are the most innocent, without being drawn up somehow into Christ, can end up being the source of a LOT of mischief. The fall of humanity may be a gloomy sounding tenet to some, but it’s the only one that satisfactorily explains why things keep seeming to go to hell on their own accord.
Serious case of hoof in mouth disease...
Pope Chauncey Gardner. The man is an idiot.
If Bezerkley was personified into a pope.
Bezerkley is worse than that.
Putting it in the English vernacular, the Pope said that he is “out to lunch.” No doubt about that.
Yup.
Ann Barnhardt has been saying this ever since he has been selected as well as several other catholic commentators...
Jus. Sayin..
I'm afraid it is worse than that.
He is the Obama of the Vatican.
Like Obama and Pope Francis, this country, and the Catholic Church won't be the same after their tenure.
And it won't be for the good of either organization. -Tom
i don’t think he needs to be aware of everything to be effective
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