Posted on 03/07/2024 5:33:28 PM PST by ebb tide
Pope Francis urged prideful people to recall one of Jesus' moral commandments to "never judge."
The sin of pride "ruins human relationships" and is an evil that "poisons the feeling of fraternity that instead should unite humanity," the pope wrote in the catechesis for his general audience in St. Peter's Square on March 6.
Still recovering from illness, Pope Francis told visitors an aide would read his talk because he could not read well due to a cold. The pope entered St. Peter's Square in the popemobile and wearing a coat in the brisk weather, but he struggled to lift himself into the vehicle after the audience and instead left the square using a wheelchair.
After his general audience on Feb. 28, the pope was taken to a Rome hospital for what the Vatican said were "diagnostic tests," and during an audience on March 2, he told people he had bronchitis.
Pope Francis took the microphone only for his initial and final greetings. At the end of the audience, he renewed his invitation "to pray for the populations that suffer the horror of war in Ukraine, in the Holy Land, and in other parts of the world."
"Let us pray for peace, let us ask the Lord for the gift of peace," he said.
In the main speech read by Msgr. Pierluigi Giroli, Pope Francis said that "the prideful (person) is one who thinks he or she is much more than he or she really is; one who frets to be recognized as greater than others, always wants to see his or her own merits recognized and despises others by deeming them inferior."
The pope's speech cited St. Gregory I, the seventh-century pope who called pride the queen of all vices.
Hidden within pride, Pope Francis wrote, is the "radical sin" of claiming to be like God. He explained that the sin of Adam and Eve recounted in the Book of Genesis was caused by pride, since the serpent that tempted them said that by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge "you will be like gods."
Those who suffer from an inflated sense of pride, the pope wrote, are quick to make "irrevocable judgments on others, who seem to them hopelessly inept and incapable," and he explained that prideful people "forget that in the Gospels Jesus assigned us very few moral precepts, but on one of them he was uncompromising: never judge."
The pope wrote that one knows when he or she is dealing with a prideful person when, by offering a small criticism or even a harmless observation, the other "reacts in an exaggerated manner" and "goes into a rage, shouts, breaks off relationships with others in a resentful way."
"There is little one can do with a person sick with pride," Pope Francis wrote, suggesting that patience is the only option when dealing with a prideful person who cannot be spoken with or corrected.
Salvation, however, "comes through humility," he wrote, which is "the true remedy for every act of pride."
Very odd thing for a pope to claim, especially the same pope who claims some of the Ten Commandments are impossible to keep for some people and thus are permissible to disobey.
Amoris Laetitia: Critical Analysis
AL 301 : ‘It is [sic] can no longer simply be said that all those in any “irregular” situation are living in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of sanctifying grace. More is involved here than mere ignorance of the rule. A subject may know full well the rule, yet have great difficulty in understanding “its inherent values”, or be in a concrete situation which does not allow him or her to act differently and decide otherwise without further sin.’
And as far as judging others, Bergoglio is pointing a finger directly at himself:
Ping
Says the prideful and judgmental Pope Soros.
Please tell me this means Pride Month is cancelled?
Even gay people I know are sick of it.
BINGO!
In the Catholic Church, the month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Pray for those who try to redirect that month to a celebration of the sin of sodomy.
I would pick God over the devil, but that would just be judgmental.
Physician, heal thyself.
Pope Marx sounds like he is judging.
Bergoglio's "irrevocable judgements" of Bishop Strickland, Cardinal Burke, Cardinal Mueller, and others come to mind.
Does that include himself?
Somebody find the Pontiff a mirror!
Whaddaya think?
The dude needs to take his own advice - the hubris of the fop judging others as “prideful” - when’s the last time he looked in the mirror?
The Vatican is in the same chaos as the rest of the world these days.
Yet criticizing the prideful is itself passing judgment.
Judge and expect to be judged. Pope is a dope.
As a Sedevacantist, TLM convert and once admirer of JP2, I can now say that there hasn’t been a valid pope since Pius XII. No one ordained or consecrated with the Novus Ordo rite is valid. They’ve destroyed apostolic succession.
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