Posted on 12/22/2014 2:09:07 PM PST by NYer
Ping!
I hear the Pope said they served up a sweet margarita. That seems positive to me.
a mixture of pastoral and business management concerns, probably pretty appropriate for his audience of Church management personnel
and he won’t have to worry much about his item 10 (suckup staffers) if he keeps talking to them this way
:)
This is Christmas. Where’s his Christmas spirit? It all seems to be about him.
Why doesn’t he speak like this all the time?
This wasn’t about him, the Pope. It was about the sins of these Cardinals, etc.
I remember at the time he became pope that some said his mandate from the cardinals was to clean up the Curia.
My take precisely. Francis condemns officious action but parades satanic relations with the Castros that have the singular consequence of sustaining their little shop of horrors.
Yeah. Prayer, empathy, freedom in the Holy Spirit, sharing people’s joys and sorrows, repentance, confession, and conversion. Straight Marxism.
/s/
Sounds very Holy Father-ish, with the emphasis on Father. Nobody likes to be on the receiving end of a father’s lecture, but many people need one.
This Pope needs to take a long hard look in the mirror. Without a doubt he is the most egotistical, hypocritical individuals to hold the papal office in well over 100 years.
Pope Francis, please do us Catholics a favor for 2015 and just shut your mouth for a change.
Amen -
Can’t understand so many Catholic news posting here, in light of game over facts about gross corruption of Vatican papacy institution.
New World order is being created and driven by the RC and many other church leaders.
When 30 year pedophile priesthood Vatican scandal facts arose, that was a real good indication of how anti-Christ the RC top leadership had become.
Suffer the little children and all...
Honestly not trying to catholic bash here.
It seems like almost all institutions are increasingly untrustworthy and unraveling fast.
God help us - please.
I certainly needn't believe, and in fact to NOT believe that papal diplomacy is infallible, and at some points in history it has been disastrous. However I think that John Paul II, Benedict and Francis are reading from the same page and have the same intent: to work for the kind of social change in Cuba that will lead to greater respect for human rights and that will secure for the Church the liberty she needs to carry out her mission.
Whether it works out this way, of course, we will not see until a couple more spins of the wheel. I myself am reserving judgment until I know better what faithful Catholics in Cuba have to say about it. However I think it is over-the-top to call it "satanic relations with Castro."
I disagree. This doesn’t sound like wiggly jelly to me.
Since when did evangelization to Cubans — the general population — who have suffered enormously become Satanic?
Maybe people have short memories and are supercritical. I am mystified.
“This is Christmas. Where’s his Christmas spirit? It all seems to be about him.”
No, this is the beginning of the new year - the new liturgical year just began four weeks ago and the new calendar year begins in a little over a week. It is also the first time this new liturgical year that almost all of the leaders of the Vatican were in the same room without some sort of overall agenda. This was the perfect time for the pope to say this. Christ - GOD - came into the world in the humble form of a baby. Why not smack the cardinals around a little to remind them of that at Christmas time so that they can be reminded that THEY ARE TO BE HUMBLE SEVANTS TOO?
People post these threads because they want to know what’s going on in the Church. Nothing wrong with that.
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