A Pope Who Shuns Awards Set for a Big One on Friday

Crux ^ | 5/5/16 | Ines San Martin

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ROME — Not that Pope Francis probably needs additional accolades, but on Friday he’s set to receive a big one anyway: The prestigious Charlemagne Prize, awarded each year to individuals or institutions for their service to European unification.

Technically, he’ll become the first pontiff to receive the award since it was created in 1950. In 2004 Pope John Paul II received an “extraordinary” edition of the prize, the only one given so far, but the actual award that year went to Irish politician Patrick Cox.

St. John Paul, and now Francis, are the only religious leaders to have received the recognition, even though its origins include a Christian element.

According to the award’s webpage, back in 1949, the founder of the Charlemagne Prize Society, Kurt Pfeiffer, “cleverly took advantage of the symbolism of the approaching Christmas season, and the jubilee year that had been announced by the pope” to suggest an “annually awarded prize for the most valuable contribution to West European understanding.”

(The reference is to a jubilee year called by Pope Pius XII in 1950, during which he formally defined the dogma of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven.)

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Exactly. It’s not detraction if you’re not naming specific people but speaking in general.

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The two specifics you mentioned and others I considered covered when I spoke about the problems with this papacy. Still, threads like these ignore about 99% of what Francis says and does because those things are orthodox and discredit the unbalanced portrayal of him as a heretic/Socialist/Communist, etc, etc.

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99% percent of what Francis does and says is glad-handing with secular politicians, tree-hugging environmentalists, muslim, protestant and jewish prelates without ever pronouncing the Catholic dogma of EENS. He has continuously encouraged non-Catholics, whether they be muslims, jews or even Tony Palmer to pursue their false religions without any encouragement to convert to the one, true Faith.

In his free time, he criticizes traditional Catholics as rosary-counters or breeding like rabbits.

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Exactly. It’s not detraction if you’re not naming specific people but speaking in general.

Are you saying don't point out the elephant in the room by not specifically referring to his proper name, Dumbo? Even if said elephant is attempting to eliminate the Ten Commandments?