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Posted on 04/25/2025 12:24:02 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
Pope Francis passed away two days ago, on Easter Monday. He had been the leader of the Catholic Church for just over 12 years. He presented himself as a well-intentioned and deeply religious man, none of which I ever doubted. But good intentions are the paving stones of the road to hell. I often tried to find some positive things about Francis so that I could admire him. But unfortunately I think that his overall impact on the world and on the church was overwhelmingly negative.
Thinking that he was working to uplift the poor and downtrodden of the world, Francis accepted all the most destructive prescriptions of the international Left. I’m sorry, but I don’t find that acceptable in a man claiming to be a major religious leader and asserting moral authority to tell others how to lead a good life. After a century and more of the destructive horrors of socialism, people in major leadership roles in society have a responsibility to learn about that and understand it and not continue to spread it. Even with the Soviet Union long gone, Cuba and North Korea and Venezuela and China are still out there to observe. We have a responsibility to know about them — why they fail, why they perpetuate poverty, why their people suffer. Supposedly good intentions have long since ceased to be a sufficient excuse for ignorance of something so important.
In general, Francis embraced the collectivist view of economic relations. He began with advocating generosity and compassion toward the poor, but then took that to the next step and asserted the Marxist principle that private property is essentially theft. This is from his 2020 Encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” (We Are All Brothers):
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Charity does not consist of taking money from other people to spend on your own agenda, no matter how righteous you feel it is. It consists of voluntary donation of money, time and personal effort by yourself, not enslaving others to your will. Leftists who call themselves Christian need to learn this.
I’m unable to give Francis the courtesy of saying that he was well intentioned. He knew the consequences of the policies he advocated. He was a Liberation theology kind of guy and saw Jesus as a gentler kind of Fidel Castro. Francis was a servant of Satan.
The demons in hell are passing poop Frankie around like a pack of smokes.
It is hard to absorb the people saying this pope loved the poor etc. He was IMO an socialist & worked to destroy society.
He sure loved him some rich Hollywood celebrities.
The only things that lousy excuse for a human being cared for was attention, communist dictators, and sexual deviants. Too bad he appointed 80% of the current Cardinals so we’re likely to get another heretical POS as Pope.
Ask any poor person what Communism has done for her or him.
“Pope Francis Was No Friend Of The Poor”
Now please read the following report about Mother Teresa:
Mother Teresa: anything but a saint...
UdeMNouvelles
https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2013/03/01/mother-teresa-anything-but-a-saint/
09/05/2022
The myth of altruism and generosity surrounding Mother Teresa is dispelled in a paper by Serge Larivée and Genevieve Chenard of University of Montreal’s Department of Psychoeducation and Carole Sénéchal of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education. The paper will be published in the March issue of the journal Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses and is an analysis of the published writings about Mother Teresa. Like the journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, who is amply quoted in their analysis, the researchers conclude that her hallowed image—which does not stand up to analysis of the facts—was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign.
“While looking for documentation on the phenomenon of altruism for a seminar on ethics, one of us stumbled upon the life and work of one of Catholic Church’s most celebrated woman and now part of our collective imagination—Mother Teresa—whose real name was Agnes Gonxha,” says Professor Larivée, who led the research. “The description was so ecstatic that it piqued our curiosity and pushed us to research further.”
As a result, the three researchers collected 502 documents on the life and work of Mother Teresa. After eliminating 195 duplicates, they consulted 287 documents to conduct their analysis, representing 96% of the literature on the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity (OMC).
Facts debunk the myth of Mother Teresa
In their article, Serge Larivée and his colleagues also cite a number of problems not take into account by the Vatican in Mother Teresa’s beatification process, such as “her rather dubious way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce.”
The sick must suffer like Christ on the cross
At the time of her death, Mother Teresa had opened 517 missions welcoming the poor and sick in more than 100 countries. The missions have been described as “homes for the dying” by doctors visiting several of these establishments in Calcutta. Two-thirds of the people coming to these missions hoped to a find a doctor to treat them, while the other third lay dying without receiving appropriate care. The doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, even unfit conditions, as well as a shortage of actual care, inadequate food, and no painkillers. The problem is not a lack of money—the Foundation created by Mother Teresa has raised hundreds of millions of dollars—but rather a particular conception of suffering and death: “There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering,” was her reply to criticism, cites the journalist Christopher Hitchens. Nevertheless, when Mother Teresa required palliative care, she received it in a modern American hospital.
Questionable politics and shadowy accounting
Mother Teresa was generous with her prayers but rather miserly with her foundation’s millions when it came to humanity’s suffering. During numerous floods in India or following the explosion of a pesticide plant in Bhopal, she offered numerous prayers and medallions of the Virgin Mary but no direct or monetary aid. On the other hand, she had no qualms about accepting the Legion of Honour and a grant from the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti. Millions of dollars were transferred to the MCO’s various bank accounts, but most of the accounts were kept secret, Larivée says. “Given the parsimonious management of Mother Theresa’s works, one may ask where the millions of dollars for the poorest of the poor have gone?”
The grand media plan for holiness
Despite these disturbing facts, how did Mother Teresa succeed in building an image of holiness and infinite goodness? According to the three researchers, her meeting in London in 1968 with the BBC’s Malcom Muggeridge, an anti-abortion journalist who shared her right-wing Catholic values, was crucial. Muggeridge decided to promote Teresa, who consequently discovered the power of mass media. In 1969, he made a eulogistic film of the missionary, promoting her by attributing to her the “first photographic miracle,” when it should have been attributed to the new film stock being marketed by Kodak. Afterwards, Mother Teresa travelled throughout the world and received numerous awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize. In her acceptance speech, on the subject of Bosnian women who were raped by Serbs and now sought abortion, she said: “I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing—direct murder by the mother herself.”
Following her death, the Vatican decided to waive the usual five-year waiting period to open the beatification process. The miracle attributed to Mother Theresa was the healing of a woman, Monica Besra, who had been suffering from intense abdominal pain. The woman testified that she was cured after a medallion blessed by Mother Theresa was placed on her abdomen. Her doctors thought otherwise: the ovarian cyst and the tuberculosis from which she suffered were healed by the drugs they had given her. The Vatican, nevertheless, concluded that it was a miracle. Mother Teresa’s popularity was such that she had become untouchable for the population, which had already declared her a saint. “What could be better than beatification followed by canonization of this model to revitalize the Church and inspire the faithful especially at a time when churches are empty and the Roman authority is in decline?” Larivée and his colleagues ask.
Positive effect of the Mother Teresa myth
Despite Mother Teresa’s dubious way of caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it, Serge Larivée and his colleagues point out the positive effect of the Mother Teresa myth: “If the extraordinary image of Mother Teresa conveyed in the collective imagination has encouraged humanitarian initiatives that are genuinely engaged with those crushed by poverty, we can only rejoice. It is likely that she has inspired many humanitarian workers whose actions have truly relieved the suffering of the destitute and addressed the causes of poverty and isolation without being extolled by the media. Nevertheless, the media coverage of Mother Theresa could have been a little more rigorous.”
About the study
The study was conducted by Serge Larivée, Department of psychoeducation, University of Montreal, Carole Sénéchal, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, and Geneviève Chénard, Department of psychoeducation, University of Montreal.
The printed version, available only in French, will be published in March 2013 in issue 42 of Studies in Religion / Sciences religieuses. This study received no specific funding.
*The University of Montreal is officially known as Université de Montréal.
On the Web:
Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses
sir.sagepub.com
Official biography of Mother Teresa published by the Vatican: www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20031019_madre-teresa_en.html
Media contact:
William Raillant-Clark
International Press Attaché
Université de Montréal
Tel: 514-343-7593
w.raillant-clark@umontreal.ca
I was enduring inane BS by two people (Ed Henry and a girl) on Newsmax this morning. They’re on location over there in Italy covering the pope’s funeral. The chick started to babble on about his “humility”.
That’s while the other half of the screen was showing clear wretched excess, golden stuff, the guy all dolled up in extravagant bright clothing, etc. The exact opposite of humility. Somehow, I couldn’t envision Peter the humble fisherman no matter how I tried. (Peter and Jesus would be appalled.)
It was so off-putting that I went shopping.
Bergoglio was a commie who set about to destroy Christianity.
“But he carried his own bags”
Preach it!
Charity is voluntary, nor mandated.
This steaming pile of crap has already been posted by some other hateful sub-human.
The Holy Father is now in peace with Christ, stop defiling a beautiful servant of God.
Develop a true relationship with Christ.
God Bless.
📌
Dude/Lady, Whatever you are. Your hate knows no bounds does it. St. Teressa is in your crosshairs!?!? THE prime example of LOVE for the poorest and loneliest on earth.
Try and find a way to heal from whatever trauma you experienced in childhood. Forgive the Uncle, neighbor, dog, etc that hurt you and start to find a better way through life. Only then can you find the light and peace of Christ.
Or just be a quiet atheist by yourself without spewing crap.
I bet you even hate puppies.
Atheist commie is dead. Hopefully, they don’t pick another like him.
You did good: )
I hope that the next man selected to be pope truly loves Christ and loves humanity. The world has had enough entitled activists. We need someone with a servant’s heart.
Great advice, thanks. But me and atheist? No, not me!
How do we know the Pope’s intentions?
Theses are petty little people who have probably never helped in a soup kitchen or handed out food to the poor or nursed a sick indigent, but who self-righteously imagine they can pass judgment over spiritual giants they hate because of their ideology. Lame.
Jorge… Anti pope who defiled the Church.
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