Francis "damage control" thread du jour.
The radio link you provide says “In the Gospel, Jesus does become angry,” but your blog link says “In the Gospel, Jesus does not become angry,”
Just saying
wow
did he really say that? or was it “out of context” again, as some keep saying?
Jesus was just pretending?
wow.
You know what....
I call BLASPHEMY!
For me...judgment is still out.
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A very interesting point.
I don’t pretend to know what the pope meant by what he said. I’m hoping it is just a bad translation considering some of his other odd remarks.
The ancient Fathers would baulk at such a suggestion, I can't think of one who would be be comfortable with the idea that the Gospels did not reveal the plain meaning of what Jesus said and did, it is only the Jesuits of the 17th century who would begin to suggest otherwise.
Don't look at me - he's your pope!
Maybe there’s just a little too much being made out of this. Jesus often spoke in parables as well, not revealing exactly what he was talking about for reasons perhaps unknown at the time. The important thing is that he made the most important meaning known, even though the reasons might not have been understood.
Pope Francis errs and lacks perfection in his own understanding, or else he has blundered badly in his communication. OR BOTH, sadly.
All I know for certain is that the enemy is stirring increasingly in the world, and the Pope shall not be spared. I am concerned for his sake as well as my own.
I am bored with these almost-daily contretemps.
The Pope should not be preaching daily, or else his daily homilies should not be recorded and reported.
He should not be giving interviews.
Popes should speak primarily through Magisterial documents, and prepared, vetted texts—e.g., the Wednesday audiences.
I can't think of an time when Jesus feigned anger. Jesus did get angry. He had righteous anger, such as the time he made the whip and drove the money changers out of the temple.
However, there were several times when Jesus asked questions that Jesus already knew the answer to. One such event was when Jesus was on the road to Emmaeus when he asked what events people were talking about.
I for one would not mind if the Pope denounced the systematic destruction of liberty in America by an openly Marxist regime.
After all, Pius XI wrote an encyclical against the Marxist National Socialist regime in Germany in 1937.
Will Pope Bergoglio be tarred as having been “silent” years after the Soetoro regime’s persecution of the Catholic Church in America, and the destruction of liberty in America?
Our pathetic, Obamacare-supporting bishops certainly will be.
And as usual, words are just not effective for much of what is in the heart.
Well, another day another weird statement.
What a piece of work.
Of course, most catholics believe anything that comes from the Magisterium when the Magisterium stops their depraved activities long enough to babble a few laughable banalities.
I think we have an Obama version of the Pope.
>> “In the Gospel, Jesus does not become angry, but pretends to when the disciples do not understand him,”
To my dear Catholic bashers, is the parent that disciplines the toddler truly angry?
“In the Gospel, Jesus does become angry, but pretends to when the disciples do not understand him.
They took out the "not". But of course this quote now makes no sense. What is with all of the editing at the Vatican websites? Removing interviews, changing formats, editing quotes. They don't know what to do with this guy.
As for the comment about the Pope should not do these things, I think by him doing these things we are seeing how he really thinks.
Maybe Jesus was just kidding about the whole “This is my body” thing.