Posted on 02/25/2016 5:09:03 PM PST by ebb tide
Au contraire. Bergoglio is the current pope and therefore I fear.
Close, bouncer in a tango dance hall.
"How can the pope praise a woman that is best known in Italy for practicing illegal abortion and promoting abortion?" commented Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro, who was until last year the head of the Rome office of Human Life International.
I guess that depends on how many women Francis has knocked up. And given his tacit support for homosexual marriage, who knows?
Pius XII is the most slandered human being of the twentieth century.
In all seriousness, Francis is becoming more and more perplexing. The portrayals of him on threads like these as senile, demented, a Communist, I just don’t think are serious appraisals of him. Such statements have to ignore statements and actions galore of Francis which are orthodox. The nuncio to Bern, Switzerland, Francis just appointed is a traditionalist. His 2014 appointment as Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Robert Cardinal Sarah, is a bare-knuckled conservative. His statements condemning abortion and gender theory while defending traditional marriage are numerous.
And yet, there’s the “Who am I to judge?” statement. There are the questionable appointments. There’s the early statement seeming to smack-down Pro-Lifers. What’s the name of the Kentucky County Clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue so-called gay marriage licenses who he went out of his way to meet but then ran from? There are the hard shots at conservative Cardinals during the Synods, but there’s also the hard shots at liberals (”adolescent progressivism ... weak thinking”). And now the seemingly *wink wink* statement on contraception (which he seemed to leave an out with by saying “maybe”) and the subject of this thread.
I confess I don’t have the answers to these contradictions, but again, the portrayal of him as a far-left loon, demonic and senile, just isn’t serious to me.
If he is Pope, even if he really likes abortion (he clearly doesn't) or contraception (debatable, I suppose), he won't be able to teach infallibly that these sins are good, because he has been given the charism of infallibility. He might, however, commit some horrible evil. Previous popes have been accused of horrible crimes, including murder, but none has ever taught that murder is not a sin.
Now we know he is Pope because Benedict's resignation was made freely and publicly, and because the election which followed was universally recognized.
He’s scum.
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