Posted on 01/08/2017 7:59:15 PM PST by ebb tide
We can always depend upon our Pope to disappoint. He uses the Feast of Epiphany to lash out at traditional Catholics:
“Longing for God draws us out of our iron-clad isolation, which makes us think that nothing can change. Longing for God shatters our dreary routines and impels us to make the changes we want and need. Longing for God has its roots in the past yet does not remain there: it reaches out to the future. Believers who feel this longing are led by faith to seek God, as the Magi did, in the most distant corners of history, for they know that there the Lord awaits them. They go to the peripheries, to the frontiers, to places not yet evangelized, to encounter their Lord. Nor do they do this out of a sense of superiority, but rather as beggars who cannot ignore the eyes of those who for whom the Good News is still uncharted territory."
“An entirely different attitude reigned in the palace of Herod, a short distance from Bethlehem, where no one realized what was taking place. As the Magi made their way, Jerusalem slept. It slept in collusion with a Herod who, rather than seeking, also slept. He slept, anesthetized by a cauterized conscience. He was bewildered, afraid. It is the bewilderment which, when faced with the newness that revolutionizes history, closes in on itself and its own achievements, its knowledge, its successes. The bewilderment of one who sits atop his wealth yet cannot see beyond it. The bewilderment lodged in the hearts of those who want to control everything and everyone. The bewilderment of those immersed in the culture of winning at any cost, in that culture where there is only room for “winners”, whatever the price. A bewilderment born of fear and foreboding before anything that challenges us, calls into question our certainties and our truths, our ways of clinging to the world and this life."
Go here to read the rest. Christ told us what His followers could expect in this world. Being insulted by a bad Pope is small potatoes all things considered.
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Pope:-Magi-reflect-the-attitudes-of-the-believer,-Herod-the-bewilderment-of-those-who-turn-inward-39593.html
If such an eisegetical and incoherent criticism came from anyone less than the Successor of St. Peter it would merely be sad.
Notice the smear of Trump. When did Trump advocate “winning—WHATEVER THE COST”?
Bergoglio HATES Trump, because of his money, because he opposes the destruction of the U.S., because of the wall. And I think also because of Trump’s masculinity. Bergoglio can’t get enough hugs from abortionists, trannies, and gay couples.
Since he’s our Pope, I’m assuming he’s saying we should, like the Magi, seek God in the Incarnation, with the help of the Blessed Mother, and among the poor.
After all, the Magi didn’t seek God by looking to self-aggrandizing sinners (as I assume he’s saying Herod did).
God help those who succumb to "evangelization" by Bergoglianistas.
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