Posted on 01/31/2015 2:17:23 PM PST by ebb tide
For months, there have been rumors that the Argentine Pope could abolish the Pontifical Swiss Guard. In recent days, the speculation has intensified. This is due to the dismissal of Colonel Daniel Rudolf Anrig, commander of the Swiss Guard.
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Is he somehow related to Barry?
Perhaps the pope has no more need for the guard than comrade obama does for the secret service.
This would damage him. The whole point of the Swiss guard is for his personal protection. These men are trained to provide as much protection as possible and I’m sure that there won’t be any other security guards as best trained or as reverent.
Tradition is the democracy of the dead. Generally there are very good reasons for institutions that have endured hundreds of years, even if they are not grasped, and one ought to be very cautious when altering such things. Providentially, tendencies to treat traditional things lightly generally contain within themselves the seeds of their own destruction, though their can be a great deal of collateral damage before they burn themselves out.
The next pope will simply bring them back. No reason to get too excited here.
In the mean time, the Vatican can be declared a gun-free zone and after the Swiss guard is dismissed, pansies may be thrown at any trouble makers.
Fortunately, the more it is evident that some traditions need to be revived, the more reviving additional hastily-dismissed traditions should be considered.
This Pope hates anything that started before 1965, and even seems to feel that anything between that time and prior to his election is also suspect. It’s all about him. The Obama of the Catholic Church.
You think? With current the flock of apostate cardinals, I doubt it.
I’ll wait until this is confirmed. Eponymous Flower is not top of my list for accurate news. In fact, I’ve never heard of it.
Actually, there have been gay sex scandals in the past, have there not? Somehow, I doubt that is reason for removal.
It is beginning to seem that way. Obama seems to prefer African culture, while the Pope prefers South America. The Pope is filling in for someone who stepped down before dying....is he a legitimate Pope? Obama, well, who knows? Both seem to have a distaste for a few thousand years of European culture and civilization. Both seem to like populations that are dependent on authority and dislike individuals accumulating resources. Neither one thinks that borders should stop the movement of populations. Neither one is a strong voice of outrage against the slaughter of Christians in Muslim-held lands.
Have I missed anything?
I think he likes the Jesuits.
Is he going to have the Muzzie Broz pulling guard duty?
That sums it up. Except that the Pope doesn’t even like Latin Americans in general, but only Argentinians, who don’t even consider themselves Latin Americans, strictly speaking. They are arrogant and boast about not having a drop of Spanish blood (like the Pope, who is Italian). Most of them, or at any rate, the ruling and professional class, are a mixture of Italian, German and English, with little Spanish and NO Indian or African blood, quite unlike most Latin Americans. They speak a very strange, Italianate Spanish with a lexicon unheard of outside of their area.
The Pope has surrounded himself with the worst of the worst brought from Argentina. His other BFFs are the German progressives who have killed the Church in Germany but, of course, still keep getting fat on the mandatory German church tax.
Eponymous Flower is extremely conservative (it may be SSPX, I don’t know) but they get their news from elsewhere. They just tend to exaggerate it sometimes or put their own editorial spin on it.
Well, he likes only certain Jesuits. Not the Fr Fessio types, needless to say...
Or the Biden, LOL!
I still prefer to wait until my Catholic freeper friends investigate this. Like you, lol!
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