Posted on 09/30/2015 7:11:14 PM PDT by markomalley
Esquire’s Charles Pierce is a graduate of a Jesuit university (Marquette). It’s among the many reasons he’s been a big fan of Pope Francis, the first-ever Jesuit pontiff, and it’s probably one factor in his vehement disappointment that Francis met with, and apparently encouraged, gay-marriage objector Kim Davis last week in Washington.
Pierce referred to the pope’s behavior regarding the “nutball” Davis as “a fcking [sic] blunder,” “a sin against charity,” and “the dumbest thing [he] ever has done.” He concluded, as if addressing Francis, “I will pray for you, because, damn, son, you need it.”
From Pierce’s post (bolding added):
Kim Davis, the goldbricking county clerk from Kentucky, met secretly with Papa Francesco in Washington and…he endorsed her current status as a faith-based layabout. Given this pope's deft gift for strategic ambiguity and shrewd public relations, it's hard for me to understand how he could commit such a hamhanded blunder as picking a side in this fight…
God, the crowing from the Right is going to be deafening. Everything he said about capitalism and about the environment is going to be drowned out because he wandered into a noisy American culture-war scuffle in which one side, apparently the one he picked, has a seemingly ceaseless megaphone for its views. What a fcking [sic] blunder. What a sin against charity, as the nuns used to say.
This is, obviously, the dumbest thing this Pope ever has done. It undermines everything he accomplished on his visit here. It undermines his pastoral message, and it diminishes his stature by involving him in a petty American political dispute. A secret meeting with this nutball?...
…Who are you to judge, Papa Francesco? I'm afraid you just did. I will pray for you, because, damn, son, you need it.
Also in the wake of the pope/Davis news, Salon’s Scott Timberg counseled liberals who’d taken a shine to this pontiff:
The most immediate question is, How could [Francis] do such a thing? Isn’t this the smiling, tolerant pope who has spoken out against climate change, against income inequality and ravages of unchecked capitalism, who has talked about protecting the earth and respecting the poor? Isn’t he – American progressives are asking – one of us?...
…Did we lefties have our hopes up unrealistically about the Cool Pope?
Probably. But let’s be honest with ourselves for a minute: Besides a handful of entertainers and academics, and a very few politicians who will never become president, the American left is pretty small…Finding common ground with a man who leads more than a billion people made good sense.
But the Pope’s meeting with Kim Davis serves as a reminder: There’s only so much we’re ever going to have in common with each other.
Well, that Jesuit influence certainly shines through.
Ya know what is becoming more and more and more clear?
That the ONLY thing the left EVER liked about this latest Pope was and is his LEFTISM.
Oh, SURE, they’re sooooo devout, eh..?
Sounds like one angry faggie.
This angry blogger fellow seems to understand neither.
all the “ His Holiness “ and “ Holy Father “ stuff doesn’t go far with Leftist Catholics .
I figured the whole thing was a big act
I’m absolutely certain that the Pope will be more than grateful for this jackasses prayers....God has a sense of humor and he proves it!
See what type of idiots the “Catholic” universities have been puking out for the last half century. If the Catholic Church wasn’t infiltrated by radical, homosexual Marxists (as Bella Dodd, the ex-Communist, stated in the 30s and 40s when she helped them enter into seminaries), than I will be da*ned.
It really is disconcerting that we keep allowing these Marxists to portray oxymorons in print——like the term “gay marriage”.....when it is a meaningless term, the way the author means it.
We have to take back the Words and Language or we will lose the culture. Don’t allow terms like “homosexual Marriage” to be used-—there is no possible thing—no possible union between sodomites. The Leftists have made words meaningless so there can be no debate of ideas. We have to go back to the Socratic Dialectic.
Apparently Pope Marxist is not pure enough for this liberal cultist.
Pray America wakes
LOL.
The immoral Left is unmasked.
Either repent or find another Church!
“Isn’t he – American progressives are asking – one of us?
Apparently not when it comes to murdering babies.
I still can’t get over the pope saying “who am I to judge?” in regards to homosexual behavior.
Now he meets with this Christian protester who defiantly decided to judge right from wrong for herself, as a Christian woman, in what actions she will and will not allow the State to push on her.
Rinos like Bernie Goldberg who recently condemned this Christian woman for disobeying sinful law, should think about how few Germans disobeyed and undermined the Nazis as they slaughtered Jews.
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