Posted on 11/19/2014 12:20:09 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
James Robison?
Doesn’t he run some kooky conservative internet site?
Pope Francis is not an American, not even English or French. It’s very likely he did not know the significance of the raised palm as being a ‘high five’. Pope most likely have to deal with all manner of strange acting out from the starstruck faithful. Maybe he thought it was more a “star trekky’ type mannerism.
No, you’re thinking of Jim Thompson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robison_%28televangelist%29
Robison is one more blow-dried phony-baloney who convinces little old ladies across America to sent him their Social Security checks in the name of Jesus. He does have a lot in common with Frankie Finocchio.
Other than the fact that Pope Francis is not blow-dried, not a televangelist, and not a person who has ever used a print, broadcast or digital or social medium to make a financial appeal, I suppose you’ve got something there.
The Church has always looked to enter into proper dialogue with other religions in order to point to what everyone finds what they all have in common.
The Church doesn't do it in order to convert others, but it is done because dialogue is the way we all find our way to the Truth.
The Pope is a Jesuit. That should explain things a bit.
That’d be Jim Thompson. No relation....... :-)
Jesuits all.
Ad Maiorem De Gloriam.
Also Father Mitch Pacwa.
This isn’t the first time a prominent Catholic had good words for a Protestant counterpart. Half a century ago, Bishop Fulton Sheen said that when Billy Graham died, the Catholic Church should declare him a saint. This was praise from one great evangelist to another.
Also Fr. Joe Fessio!
I like it too. Pope Francis is a man, a human being, and if he wasn’t offended by it, I’m not.
I’ll bet he gets tired of all of the formality.
“Here are men who love Jesus. If Jesus walked into the room, they’d hit their knees as fast, if not faster, than the Catholics with them.”
I am sorry to disappoint you: Pope Francis himself in “consecrating” the hose, is observed to not even genuflect. See Ann Barnhardt’s blog back when she presented the feed from his first mass as pope. That was likely the first time ever that a pope showed no such reverence at consecration.
Conclusion: Either he doesn’t believe in the Catholic doctrine of trans-substantiation or he would not fall on his knees as the author erroneously asserts.
And the late Father John Hardon. Also, Father Richard Ho Lung, founder of the Missionaries of the Poor, was a Jesuit before he started the MOP.
Making global generalities off of literal rubrical foot-faults.
I could be he has arthritic knees that periodically flare up. I "get" this because I have R.A. myself. If I genuflcted, let alone knelt in church, it's doubtful I could get up without a stout yeoman to hoist me right and left.
There are things you can well criticize about Pope Francis. I don't like his appointments, many of them. I don't like his insouciance about stuff like the Scalfari "interviews." But don't pick a something that might be more about tendons than theological tendencies.
Catholic ping!
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