[GreyFriar]

Creating a new tempest in that well used teapot.

According to the article, Pope Francis said “The Blessed Mother was human! And perhaps she would have wanted to say, ‘lies! I have been cheated!’.”

Key words Mary “was human.” To me Pope Francis is speculating on what a very human Mary’s personal and never spoken thoughts to seeing her son crucified may have been. He is not claiming she said anything or stating that she actually thought it. He is bring Mary to us as a fellow human being; not a demi/semi-goddess or marble saint, but a mother going through the shock of seeing her son being executed.

Yep, he should have not said it as it becomes another ‘let’s whip Frankie’ point.

[NYer]

Creating a new tempest in that well used teapot.

Not necessarily. Consider the source of this post: Eponymous Flower blog. Here is how they describe themselves:

Purpose

This is a polemical Catholic Royalist blog. It will also attempt to provide a window onto various events, situations and personalities not generally or favorably presented to the purview of the general public in the English speaking world. It also hopes to be a bridge for those who wish to cross over, unite and fight for the truth.

Consider, as well, the freeper piusv only posted the introduction to the post and not the entire text.

The pope's homilies are constructed in Spanish, translated into Italian for delivery and then translated (i.e. "interpreted") in English by anyone and everyone. My suggestion is that anyone who is seriously interested in what the pope has to say, should go to the source, not the interpretation or translations.

[BlatherNaut]

First of all, nobody wants to “whip Frankie”. The problem is that time and time again, the Pope says controversial and/or peculiar things that the Vatican has to “clarify”. In this case, he’s just making up things Mary might have thought. Attributing things to Mary that are concocted in his imagination rather than taken from scripture and in the process implying that she might have viewed God as a liar is naturally controversial. He could just as easily have speculated that she was hungry and wishing for a sandwich, which would have been similarly pointless.

[annalex]

new tempest in that well used teapot.

Exactly, thanks for the even-headedness about it.