Posted on 09/26/2015 5:59:58 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
We must struggle every day so that this love of humanity becomes a reality. — Che Guevara...
...Deference to a pope comes readily to Catholics. We are groomed for it. Within legitimate bounds, there is grace in that. But the boundaries are not totalizing. Outside of them, obeisance falls prey to forces that do not serve the church. Neither do they lend succor to a civilization painfully wrought from endemic tyrannies and universal poverty. Far, far from it.
There comes a moment when deference glides into collusion. At that point, we all become Good Germans. Fascist-friendly. Trust in respected authority curdles into a thing entirely different—a willed blindness to something dark in the particular voice commanding assent. Decent and dependable, we incline toward the beckoning circle of connivance.
Our own lifetime has not prepared Catholics for such a moment. But it is here now. We can adjust our sensibilities, our priorities, and our hopes to counter this juncture. Or we can surrender our children and grandchildren to a downward slide into a retrograde world order built on contempt for the bases of those very structures that have lifted a still-increasing portion of the earth’s population out of the misery that is history’s norm.
Pope Francis’s Malice
Something in me gave way at the sight of an exultant image of Che Guevara overseeing the altar in Plaza de la Revolución, the approved site of the recent papal Mass in Havana. A sadistic, murderous thug looked down on attendees in an obscene burlesque of Christ Pantocrator. Under the gaze of a butcher and amid symbols of the regime, Jorge Bergolio joined his fellow Argentine in service to the calamitous Cuban revolution...
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Has he gone yet...back to his own country?
MSNBC has spent hours been breathlessly covering the Pope’s helicopter trip from NYC to Philly. You can’t make this stuff up!
The cardinal described the scene as Cubans, pilgrims from Boston, and others gathered for the third papal Mass the cardinal has seen in Cuba, but the first since the beginning of the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba.
"Today we had the privilege and the joy to attend Pope Francis' Mass in Havana in the Plaza de la Revolución under the picture of his fellow Argentine Che Guevara. Hundreds of thousands of people from Cuba, and from beyond, gathered with the Holy Father for this great event," Cardinal O'Malley said.
Excellent article! And she sees him for what he is.
I was particularly amused that they sang John Lennon’s “Imagine” for the Pope at the UN, which he appeared to enjoy. It’s a hymn to the collectivist, materialist future. One of the things one is supposed to imagine, other than a world where there are no individuals and no thought of any kind, is a world where there are no religions.
Way to go, Pope Francis!
This Pope prates of Jesus but means Marx.
Nice word I’ve added. Thank you.
This article is an excellent assessment of this Marxist Pope. Che would be proud.
People should think seriously about the implications of having less capitalism at a time when there is a rapidly growing population. This would mean even more people in poverty along with associated deprivation, economic hardship and widespread social unrest. Chaos will thrive and that would only lead to political instability and despotism.
One wonders what the true motivations really are for those who rail against capitalism.
When Francis became Pope I could tell that the left was going to bide its time, let everyone get their adulation out of their systems before they put their plan into order.
Their plan was to scour everything the Pope says and they look for any angle they can play up to their advantage.
Pro-life? Well, we will just ignore that. Calls for traditional marriage? We will gloss over that. But when he says anything that sounds like he agrees with the leftist’s position that is when they put the megaphone to their mouths.
The left calls it “marginalization,” and they are marginalizing the Pope to the extent that they are making him look like one of them. Meanwhile, conservatives are acting like the Pope has went to the dark side. Conservatives are the ones acting like the left used to act to JPII. Conservatives are now the ones who are saying nasty things about Francis.
Every time Francis speaks the left goes out of their way to co-opt his words. In effect they are putting their collective arm around his shoulder and they look at us and give us the distinct impression that Francis agrees with them.
Remember, he may have opinions about the climate and refugee status, but his main job is to keep the flock morally aware, which means pro-life and pro-family.
Just the things that the left is scrambling to get us to ignore.
George Will: Pope Is a False Prophet
http://www.newsmax.com/GeorgeWill/pope-francis-catholic/2015/09/20/id/692423/
Apparently this pope can’t be bothered to condemn the excess of communism. Being in cuba was the oppertunity to do that
You make Francis sound like a doddering old fool in your attacks on both camps, liberals and conservatives. I believe he knows what he means to say and is saying what he means.
He could learn to speak better English if he cares to communicate more directly to Americans what he means to say, if its different than what he actually is saying.
I’ve heard personally more than enough of his anti-Americanisms to satisfy my curiosity whether his words, in whatever language he chooses, are being twisted by media. They are not being twisted but, rather, are being enhanced and reinforced by other RCC spokesmen.
Furthermore, the media loves Francis; isn’t that plain to you by the amount of coverage?
Your post misses the mark of accuracy.
He’s NOT serving Christ nor the word of God.
............or is that just toooo non-PC?
"As Newsweek has observed, seventeen years ago in his homily in Havana, John Paul II mentioned “freedom” seventeen times and “justice” thirteen times. In his homily, Francis did not mention “freedom” or “justice” once. All that Francis said about Cubans was that they are “a people which has its wounds, like every other people.” In other words, Francis told Cubans that they are no worse off than any other people on earth after fifty-six years of economic and political repression, and that they really have nothing to complain about. The closest he came to upbraiding the Castro regime or to calling for an end to the enslavement of the Cuban people was to say: “service is never ideological, for we do not serve ideas, we serve people.”
Do you ever hear the left complain about his stand on the issue of life?
No you don't, because he has been co-opted. And when they do that they can put any word in his mouth and make us think that he totally agrees with them.
Bill Clinton had a meeting at the Vatican with John Paul, and when he left the room and faced the media he proclaimed that 'the Pope now agrees with me on abortion.' (I am paraphrasing).
Which prompted the Vatican to immediately issue a stern correction.
They are taking advantage of Francis' media naiveté leaving us to think that he is a leftist.
It is probably one of the most brilliant actions the left has ever played on us.
**prates**
I couldn’t find a definition. Portuguese surname and something close in Italian.
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