Posted on 05/06/2016 6:32:23 AM PDT by marshmallow
ROME — Not that Pope Francis probably needs additional accolades, but on Friday he’s set to receive a big one anyway: The prestigious Charlemagne Prize, awarded each year to individuals or institutions for their service to European unification.
Technically, he’ll become the first pontiff to receive the award since it was created in 1950. In 2004 Pope John Paul II received an “extraordinary” edition of the prize, the only one given so far, but the actual award that year went to Irish politician Patrick Cox.
St. John Paul, and now Francis, are the only religious leaders to have received the recognition, even though its origins include a Christian element.
According to the award’s webpage, back in 1949, the founder of the Charlemagne Prize Society, Kurt Pfeiffer, “cleverly took advantage of the symbolism of the approaching Christmas season, and the jubilee year that had been announced by the pope” to suggest an “annually awarded prize for the most valuable contribution to West European understanding.”
(The reference is to a jubilee year called by Pope Pius XII in 1950, during which he formally defined the dogma of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven.)
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Is Apostate an “accolade”?
What a coincidence.
Pope Che is rumored to be a front runner at the Teen Choice Awards, too.
Charlemagne had a different approach to European unification. Muslim immigration was not part of the formula.
Here’s an ‘award’ we can all share...
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The Pope gets this award at the moment the EU is shattering. Country after country falling to the Pope’s Muslim invaders.
The Pope gets this award at the moment the EU is shattering. Country after country falling to the Pope’s Muslim invaders.
LOL
Didn't he whomp down hard on the Saxons, or what?
Too much irony here.
The Pope’s address to the European Union Parliament a couple of years or so back was largely a rebuke. He talked about Europe’s childlessness as a sign of a lack of hope for the future. He talked about Europeans trying to live as if there is no God. His words largely sounded like a continuation of the thought of Benedict and John Paul on the graying and dying of Europe.
Yes, there are problems with this papacy with regard to words the Pope chooses to use at times, and maybe even with some of the thought of the Holy Father himself. But he will not be allowed to formally teach an error in either faith or morals and the comments on here of him as solely a liberal apostate cheering on Muslim marauders are untrue and unbalanced.
Take off your rose-colored glasses. He rebuked a pregnant Catholic mother, expecting her eight child by C-section, as being "crazy" and "tempting God". And he also suggested artificial birth control could be used in fear of the Zika virus; i.e., he recommended eugenics.
Thank you for saying this. It deserves serious and frequent pondering. Some people (I'll include my culpa here) forget that detraction is an actual sin and can even be a mortal one, depending on the circumstances; and that justice and charity are due to Francis, as to all people, and even if he *is* the pope.
Oh, I know!! Pope Judgey-eyes says “Don’t judge!” But he doesn’t usually target his jabs on people you can exactly identify. He just blasts on a general “if-the-shoe-fits” basis. This is different from detracting from an individual or degrading an individual’s name in public.
He blasted the pregnant mother to her face.
I think his concern was, first, medically out-of-date. I trust the woman and her husband were able to weigh up the risks and benefits, and judge for themselves that this was medically appropriate in her situation. Nowadays multiple C-sections are considered high-risk, yes, but not reckless, and are much less hazardous than they were even 25 years ago.
Second, Pope Francis' way of expressing himself was too brusque, perhaps because he was worried for her sake, by what he perceived to be her risks.
But it was not, in my view, "detraction" motivated by a desire to degrade this woman in public. He was worried about her. And he tends to blurt out his reactions unfiltered. I'll bet the woman has forgiven him. I would.
Well, until you, or Pope Francis, receives her/his medical degree, I recommend you hold you medical advice to yourselves.
Why not congratulate the pregnant mother and offer your prayers for both Mom and baby, rather than accuse her of "tempting God"?
And I noticed you have no comment about Francis' comments on the Zika virus and the possible justification of artificial birth control.
Whatever, your "grip" is on; it's not Catholic.
They’re not rose-colored but they’re not totally black either.
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