[markomalley]

Full title: Pope Francis Unfiltered! A Recent Column Describes an Area in which the “Modern” Pope is definitely “Old School.”

[markomalley]

Msgr Pope ping

[9YearLurker]

He’s a Christian Marxist—and far from the only one.

[melsec]

Thanks for the balanced article Mark. I must say I enjoy reading your posts!

It is not only the secular media who use their own filter we all do to some extent - not recognizing it is where the problem lies.

[GreyFriar]

See also this thread from yesterday:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3154756/posts

[Alex Murphy]

Pope Francis, rightly or wrongly (wrongly I would argue), is the darling of self-styled “progressives” who like to see him as a model of the “change” they have been waiting for. The secular media in particular style him as moving the Church dramatically in the directions that please them. But in order to do this, they must apply a filter that ignores a great deal of what he actually says and does. As a Catholic and as Pope, Francis is not going to fit into the media’s (or anyone’s) neat little categories. He is more complex than such convenient little boxes permit.

Pope Benedict too, despite the label of “conservative,” disappointed many conservatives with his views on the economy (as expressed in his last encyclical) and with some of his notions regarding Hell and whether anyone really went there (Benedict tended to be in the camp of Von Balthasar who “dared” to hope that most would be saved). And for all his generosity toward the Traditional Latin Mass, for the record, he never said one publicly as Pope.

IB4TPWMA

[cloudmountain]

Pope Benedict nailed it for me.
He said that RELATIVE MORALITY is our problem today.

When he's right, he's right.

[NYer]

Ping!

[Zionist Conspirator]

The allegorization of Genesis is where all the trouble starts. Why do conservative Catholics protest when their own philosophy is taken to its logical conclusion???

[tomsbartoo]

Clever writers have always been able to parse the words and phrases of any individual so as to portray them as having a philosophy or point of view that comports with whatever the writer wishes to suggest.

This ability is not reserved to the either the right or the left. Both camps are quite capable of presenting their version of the “truth” equally. Monsignor Pope is not an exception but seems quite talented in this art as well.

But what Pope Francis (or the leader of any organization for that matter) stands for and promotes is only correctly measured by the results; not by what some spin doctor might say they represent. As a very famous man once said, “every good tree bears good fruit; but a bad tree bears bad fruit.” By any reasonable and rational measure, the Catholic Church, headed up by the modernist popes since John XXIII, has not borne good fruit.

Monsignor Pope’s view is the voice of the neo-Catholics. Until the bishops and the popes recognize that they must return to teaching the true faith, rather than depend upon favorable media to tout their successes, those who seek a holy Church will search in vain.

[Arthur McGowan]

One modern manifestation of evil is Nancy Pelosi.

And another modern manifestation of evil is the fact the Cardinal Donald Wuerl insists that Nancy Pelosi must be given Communion.

Any priest in the Archdiocese of Washington who denies Communion to Nancy Pelosi, or to an out-and-proud lesbian, will be suspended immediately by Cardinal Wuerl.

Obviously, it is sinful to cause scandal by giving such people Communion. There certainly can be no noble or respectable motive for these evil actions by Cardinal Wuerl! The “reasons” he has offered in public statements have been preposterous.

What could be the REAL motives behind Cardinal Wuerl’s determination to commit sacrilege and cause scandal?

[Jeff Chandler]

Ad Orientem ping

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