Posted on 06/19/2015 5:13:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Are you asking about the Popemobile?
Hopefully, in a couple hundred years he’ll become the patron
saint of the short bus, drool bucket and helmet.
The Pope isn’t in a bubble, he’s simply an unrepentant Marxist...
RE: Are you asking about the Popemobile?
The author does mentioned it in the article (COPY AND PASTE ):
“Pope Francis has sealed himself off in an ideological bubble that is harder and more impenetrable than the Popemobile. He refuses to recognize that there are alternative ideas outside the leftist orthodoxy on capitalism and the environment. The result is a sense that I’ve never quite gotten before from a papal encyclical: the sense of the pope as a narrow ideologue, captive to a relatively recent political fad.”
He’s been fed a load of malarkey.
First time it’s been dignified to this extent, though.
This, I just plain don’t get (in one way).
The Roman Catholic church is a worldwide church, isn’t it?
So why is this pope acting like it’s some little corner of Brazil?
The Hippie Pope. Sounds like he got his philosophy from that “When Will We Ever Learn” song.
Good grief! Christianity is supposed to be about truth. This besmirches the very notion.
The Pope is living in the early 1970s, which were clearly his glory days, ideologically speaking. Rachel Carson’s faux science book, Silent Spring, had managed to stop DDT use and let millions of Third World people die from malaria, Paul Erlich was in his prime, and hysteria was breaking out on every side.
He boasts that he hasn’t watched anything on television since 1960 and he has never been on the Internet and he only reads La Repubblica...for 10 minutes a day. So where exactly is he getting the information in his bubble? From his cronies and sycophants, who are busy feeding his ignorant ideological biases.
How thick is his head?
Well if those boasts are true he really has set himself up to be a sucker.
If he was content to be a theological maven then fine. The news of what happened in the world does not matter. But he is taking it on himself to address the world as if he knew it.
Why did Benedict yield his seat to this? Why did the college of cardinals give it a nod? Good grief. We just assume that people today are well read, especially if they have managed to get to a high position.
If ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise?
It’s already been complained about even before Francis. That the Vatican was putting out screeds about all manner of world affairs that didn’t have anything to do with how Christian faith was being lived out. However, the popes were not giving it any airtime.
NOW, with Francis, the Vatican has an awesome megaphone for such foolishness.
If only...I believe he is known to hate incense. Maybe he likes the smell of patchouli oil?
Why does it take him 83 paragraphs before he mentions Christ’s name?
I remember back in the 70s when the US bishops issued a meaningless, cheered-by-the-NYT statement about nuclear war, upon which they had suddenly declared themselves experts. Who remembers it now, except to laugh? But I think it seriously damaged their credibility on every level, because they looked like what they were, just a bunch of foolish politically motivated bureaucrats working for a big NGO. It took them decades to regain any semblance of respect.
The Pope is doing the same thing to the papacy. He’s also destroying the brand for which he claims to work.
I’m a Wascally Evangelical not a Roman Catholic. But I have to have some respect for a Christian organization that has kept a physical continuity from the gospel days even if there are questions about where its membership has gone spiritually.
And so when they dig themselves into a hole, I don’t snicker. I grieve. This is the name and reputation of Jesus Christ the one and only Savior being dragged into the mud, by those who ought to know better.
bttt
———The Hippie Pope. Sounds like he got his philosophy from that “When Will We Ever Learn” song.-——
More like Kas Kapital....
Good article. Thanks for the post.
I watched Pope Francis speak at some Euro summit on something or other and it seemed he was speaking from the perspective of head of state and not religious leader. The Vatican is one of those teeny-weeny states, but a state all the same.
From the review of the opening section of this encyclical it sounds like it could be more of the same perspective.
This could be a file-it-and-forget-it document in very short order.
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