Posted on 10/22/2020 7:48:11 AM PDT by Salman
Francis’s new encyclical reads like a UN mission statement.
To celebrate the memory of Saint Francis of Assisi, to whom his pontificate is consecrated, Pope Francis has honored us with a long encyclical entitled Fratelli Tutti, or “All Brothers.” I doubt that this text will become a bestseller among the faithful, though all Catholics are urged to pay heed to such pronouncements. For those who, like me, are not Catholic, these texts are still worth analyzing as reflections of the spirit of the times and the intellectual atmosphere at the Vatican.
Fratelli Tutti, unsurprisingly, confirms the pope’s solid positioning on the left as an ecologist and anti-capitalist, a stance rooted in the revolutionary doctrines of his Argentine youth among the Jesuits of Buenos Aires—fellow travelers of Liberation Theology and hostile to the economic “liberalism” favored by military dictators. Times have changed, and the poverty that rightly haunts Pope Francis has massively diminished around the world thanks to globalization, free trade, the market economy, and the scientific revolution in agriculture (GMO soybeans in Argentina, for example). The encyclical takes no account of this progress but presses on in the fight with a largely imaginary enemy that the pope, like all leftist intellectuals, calls “neoliberalism.”
This is the enemy to be slain, according to Fratelli Tutti; but it is not defined, no doubt because it does not exist. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
It was headed there long before Francis — he just made it more visible
Seems like a good question.
5.56mm
It was headed there long before Francis — he just made it more visibleAs a tendency, yes. But previous popes fought against it.
The destruction of the Boy Scouts was a dress rehearsal for the Churches.
Playing nice with these perverts doesn’t work.
~Easy
The current pope is more Marxist than catholic.
Think this priest’s video answers the question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7eoTN2vNM&feature=youtu.be
Regards, pilgrim
No. Next question.
On 29 June, 1972, Pope Paul lamented,
“We believed that after the [Second Vatican] Council would come a day of sunshine in the history of the Church. But instead there has come a day of clouds and storms, and of darkness … “And how did this come about? We will confide to you the thought that maybe we ourselves admit in free discussion, that may be unfounded, and that is that there has been a power, an adversary power. Let us call him by his name: the Devil. … It is as if from some mysterious crack, no, it is not mysterious, from some crack the smoke of Satan has entered the Temple of God.”
Today “From some crack the smoke of Satan” reads as prophesy.
Wish I could get a bead on this stuff.
Nope. Disguising himself as an agent of light. Just like the devil and his demons.
Actually, this pope is VERY Catholic. It’s a church of abortion and sodomy.
Nah, he’s TRIED to, but he can’t hijack it.
When he’s gone, and he will be gone, the Church, the bride of Christ remains.
This flawed papacy (I’m being generous) just shows us WHY the Church remains the bride of Christ - and the reason is NOT human. There are lots of flawed humans even bishops, and they try their damndest to destroy the Church, but they fail.
they fail because the High priest, Jesus Christ is there at each Eucharist and looks after His bride, His church.
There is no earthly reason for the church to survive, but three is an heavenly reason
NAh, the church of abortion and sodomy is any pick of the various groups called “Protestant”.
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