Posted on 04/23/2018 7:01:18 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME, April 21, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — The author of the top-selling book The Dictator Pope has said Pope Francis isn’t a reformer but rather a “maverick pope” who “acts like a dictator” and has “completely gone off the rails.”
In a video interview with the National Catholic Register published on Saturday (watch interview below), author and historian Henry Sire says Francis is “one of the more disastrous pontificates in history,” and he felt it necessary to reveal the “gap” between Francis’ public image and the “reality as it is known in the Vatican.”
Sire says he had no intention of writing a balanced picture of Francis’ papacy as he intended the book “to be an alarm call.”
“When you’re shouting ‘Fire!’ when the house is on fire, you don’t say: ‘Well actually the fire is doing quite good work cooking the chicken in the kitchen,’” Sire explains.
The Dictator Pope was published as an e-book in November last year under the pseudonym Marcantonio Colonna, the 16th century admiral of the papal fleet at the Battle of Lepanto. Regnery Publishing will release a completely revised and updated print edition of the book on April 23.
In his first video interview, Sire said that Francis is essentially a “politician who relies on public relations” and who “is a dictator” in the tradition of the former Argentine populist leader, Juan Peron. Peronists, Sire said, are “complete opportunists” who are neither left nor right wing, and this “sums up Pope Francis exactly.”
Born in Barcelona of a family of French ancestry, Sire was educated at Stonyhurst College, a prestigious private Jesuit school in England, and then went on to study history at Oxford University.
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We may have THREE popes, should this one decide to retire?
In order for someone to go off the rail, they must first have been on them.
He’s a Jesuit. That should tell us all we need to know.
[but rather a “maverick pope” who “acts like a dictator”]
He’s related to John McCain?
We are stuck with this Pope for now. When he first started, Pope Francis often alluded to his time as Pope destined to be a brief tenure. He often made such references. Much less so in the last three years. So here we are, watching the clock and hoping for better the next time.
There are bad Jesuits and then there are good Jesuits.
Frankie is a bad one.
A Jesuit like Fr. Mitch Pacwa is a good one.
“Peronists, Sire said, are “complete opportunists” who are neither left nor right wing, and this “sums up Pope Francis exactly.”
Utter nonsense.
“then there are good Jesuits.”
We are all free to believe as we wish but I personally disagree with this part of your statement. Jesuits have been and are evil.
The Pope was well known to be a hard left socialist when he was in Argentina. I think in reality he is a Marxist with a twisted understanding of Catholicism.
He knows what Catholicism is with perfection, he is a man of high intellect. He in my opinion is a political activist and uses Catholicism and his position as The Pope to advance his political ideology that in his twisted logic of what my church should be to him must be the proper course of my church. He is wrong!
He is a flawed Pope and a great threat to my church. He just might kill my church. Oddly I do think he is doing what he thinks is right. He is very wrong in his thoughts.
Over the centuries my church has survived bad popes. Pray for my church.
I strongly disagree with your first assertion; as far as the latter one: evil men can also have high intellect.
“he is a man of high intellec”
Disagree emphatically.
“Henry Sire says Francis is “one of the more disastrous pontificates in history,”....
Should say, “one of many disastrous pontificates in history”
Amen about Father Mitch.
I have his book of the Holy Land. Beautiful book.
At least in the top 10 worse.
I agree with your rejection of the “high intellect” statement. Every thing this pope says reinforces my initial impression that he’s just no very bright. A typical leftist ideologue.
I agree. He is a dictator.
Dictators get their way via the iron fist and the jackboot.
What’s worse, most of the Cardinals obviously support him.
Otherwise Benedict would still be Pope.
So, what do you to when he ultimately forces the issue?
That’s my argument with all of you NeverSchism people.
Are you going to stay with him in a church that embraces abortion, gay marriage, and other anti-Godly practices?
To paint all Jesuits with the same brush stroke is unfair and really stupid.
I don’t criticize you. If things get that openly heretical, then I’ll just have to see where it leads me.
When we were living in Ridgefield, Connecticut, some years ago, the HQ of the Society of St. Pius X was in a house and newly built church just a couple of hundred yards away from us. I used to meet the Fathers skating on the ice with kids who were children of their parishioners, or out walking when I walked the dogs. They were very nice, and obviously loyal to the traditional Catholic Church.
The Spirit of Vatican II was horrible then. I did go to one or a few of the SPX masses, and they were wonderful. Our local parish went to the dogs, and I started taking my kids to a church further away, where the pastor and his assistants were still real Catholics.
As I have said, I’m fortunate to have a good pastor at the moment, and I’ve always had genuine confession and communion and the other sacraments available, except for that one parish that I abandoned.
If Pope Francis succeeds in destroying the Church the way he wishes, a lot further, then I’ll have to think again. But meantime, I’ll just hold on, wait, and see—and refuse to be led down his garden path.
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