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Posted on 05/20/2018 12:47:05 PM PDT by NRx
In her Nobel Prize-winning book Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, Svetlana Alexievich interviews scores of Russians who lament the loss of the Soviet Empire, even as they recount its horrors in excruciating detail. The Soviet Empire may have been barbaric, but at least they were great! The world feared them! They had defeated Hitler! (No thanks to the British and Americans.)
Several unapologetic Soviets complain they lost their beloved empire without a shot. Why didn’t blood flow in the streets in her defense? They blame Mikhail Gorbachev. As one Soviet observes, the Communist system could withstand any challenge from below. It could suppress any revolution. Except one. What if the party’s leader was no longer a true believer? What if Gorbachev betrayed the cause from within the Kremlin, from the very top, where no one could stop him?
Ross Douthat ponders an analogous takeover within the Vatican in his new book, To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism. What if Pope Francis isn’t Catholic? What if he aims to overturn centuries of dogma? What if he plans to stack the College of Cardinals with liberal allies who will ensure his revolution can’t soon be reversed? What if he banishes his conservative critics to the church’s periphery? Who, then, will enforce the teaching on sexuality and marriage preserved against Western cultural trends by the late Pope John Paul II and self-titled Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI? Indeed, how can the vicar of Christ so confidently dismiss the words of Christ on marriage and adultery from the Gospels?
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Not the pope, but his handlrers.
Francis’s Catholicism begins and ends with Karl Marx, IMO
No problem.
He’s not Catholic.
He’s not pope either.
-—The Last of the Soviets, Svetlana Alexievich interviews scores of Russians who lament the loss of the Soviet Empire, even as they recount its horrors in excruciating detail. The Soviet Empire may have been barbaric, but at least they were great! The world feared them!-—
Interesting. I would have thought the opposite by everybody except the very top brass.
This would make for a great material for a college course (in a normal college).
He sure the hell isnt LC-MS.
Miss you more and more...
Fr Frances is to the Catholic Church what Obama was to our Republic.
the last couple of popes, for all their pros and cons........
...nobody had to ask if they were Catholic!
Worst possible choice - a Jesuit socialist from Latin America. No possible way he is Catholic.
The entire Jesuit Order should be disbanded.
JMHO
“What if he plans to stack the College of Cardinals with liberal allies who will ensure his revolution can’t soon be reversed?”
He’s been doing that right along. Pope Francis is about to add 14 more liberals to the College imminently. Catholics are stuck with a now totally liberal infiltrated Church that will hire another liberal to be the next Pope after Francis dies (or retires), and the only answer for Traditionalists will be schism, which is anathema to many Catholics, but may be the only answer. How else to you get around a socialist, liberal stacked deck in the College of Cardinals? I ask you.
Any parent that entrusts his young son to the care of today’s Jesuits is negligent. They have devolved into an unspeakable cabal.
“What if Pope Francis isn’t Catholic?”
Why, that’s as crazy as if you were to say ‘what if the President wasn’t American’!
The big difference between a Jesuit and a Protestant is that the Protestant admits that they are not Catholic
First Nondenominational Pope.
And I don’t mean that in a good way.
Jesus, rescue your Bride.
Hmm, you would almost think the Catholic Church is a religious organization, rather than the Bride of Christ (sic)
Sorry, but the dude is a Roman Catholic through and through. Y’all have to obey him per Roman Catholic dogma on the issue.
So much for the old metaphor: is the Pope Catholic. Now you are going to tell me bears don’t xxxxxx in the woods.
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