I Don’t Care Much About the Pope

Unequally Yoked ^ | May 9, 2014 | Leah Libresco

[mindburglar]

You are correct. I misspoke.

I still don’t like the fine line he walks with this kind of speech.

The UN is the biggest sinkhole of charitable donations in history. Appealing to them is a lost cause at best. They’d love nothing better than to enrich themselves and further their own Marxist agenda with more donations.

I’m sorry I over reacted, but legitimizing that cesspool irritates me.

[Salvation]

What do you know about subsidiarity? That's what the Pope is talking about.

Repeat After Me: Subsidiarity & Solidarity
Subsidiarity and Human Dignity
Does the USCCB Understand Subsidiarity?
[CATHOLIC CAUCUS] The Principle of Subsidiarity
[CATHOLIC/ORTHODOX CAUCUS] Subsidiarity Over Social Justice
What is the USCCB’s problem with subsidiarity?
Subsidiarity: Where Justice and Freedom Coexist
Health reform still full of thorny problems for Catholics (Vasa comes out for subsidiarity)
What You [Catholics] Need to Know: Subsidiarity, [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]
Catholic Word of the Day: SUBSIDIARITY, 06-11-09

[vladimir998]

This pope seems to tend to speak first and think later - or perhaps he simply does not yet understand how his words will get twisted. I’m not sure. I also think he - like the previous three or four popes - doesn’t know too much about how economics actually works. I also think he tends to assume too much goodness on the part of governments. I would agree with you on all of that without any hesitation.

[wonkowasright]

Indeed. Particularly demonstrating how much they fail to grasp what communism was.

[SumProVita]

Please provide substantive proof that Pope Francis advocates communism....and I AM baptized. ;-)

PS. The media/present-day press is not considered “substantive.”

[Salvation]

Still waiting for your source for this statement.

[cothrige]

This pope seems to tend to speak first and think later - or perhaps he simply does not yet understand how his words will get twisted.

What concerns me most of all is that, after some interview or comments from the pope, I can never really be sure just what he really did mean us to understand from his words. It seems that no matter how simple the question or situation he manages to issue a statement that can always be understood as meaning any number of usually quite contradictory things, and among which there is never a particularly good reason to assume one over the other. What teaching value is there in that? Don't get me wrong, I am sure he is sincere and all that, but that doesn't really make the situation any better.

[cothrige]

I think if you look up a couple of posts you will see where he admitted his error and apologised for it.

[livius]

I agree with both of you. I think Pope Francis is actually quite orthodox but he’s naïve, trusting, and there are serious problems not only with what his casual statements but with what he allows to be said about him or “quoted” by people who claim that he told them such and such in a private conversation. Since these things always agree with what the media wants, they are picked up and broadcast, and I hope he gets more savvy very soon!

Also, I think he needs a better press secretary. The current one did no favors for BXVI and is doing none for Francis, who kept him on. I don’t think he’s ill-intentioned, just an incompetent Italian.

JPII had a Spaniard, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who was smart (and an Opus Dei member) and managed to keep things in hand. I don’t think the current one is up to it, and he embarrassed BXVI on a number of occasions and is obviously doing the same with Francis.

That said, I think Francis is more leftwing and VII than I would like, but I don’t think he’s anywhere near what the press and the German bishops would like him to be.

Also, I think all popes should stick to religion and stop talking about economics, about which they know nothing. And few to none of their advisors know anything about it either, and 80 year old cardinals (apparently among his “advisors”) are surely totally clueless on the subject.