Posted on 02/04/2017 5:14:10 AM PST by Petrosius
Rome woke up this Saturday with something quite new, and very old, in its streets: posters throughout the City (in the style of the old "pasquinate") critical of the Pope.
In English, from the Romanesco-inspired Italian:
Ah Francis, you have intervened in Congregations, removed priests, decapitated the Order of Malta and the Franciscans of the Immaculate, ignored Cardinals... but where is your mercy?
These were common at the time of the Papal States (before the fall of Porta Pia and the full unification of Italy in 1870): not for religious reasons, but rather for political complaints, since the Popes were also the secular rulers of the Pontifical territories.
Since then, these public criticisms of Pontiffs mostly disappeared in the City, considering the new Italian authorities were now those responsible for the secular government of the old papal territories, and that the Pope remained responsible only for religious matters. They still show up all the time against Italian politicians.
But when, by common Roman consent, the most tyrannical Pontiff since the Renaissance, still has the gall of speaking under the name of mercy (!!!!), the humor of the Roman people does not remain silent when faced with this charade.
Glad to hear it.
He has reduced a “pebble in my shoe”
Good. He needs to be booted.
wounds my heart with a monotonous languor
+1
So does everyone else also envision Francis screaming in the streets as he angrily pulls each and every poster off the wall?
LOL.
I fully expect the Catholic Church to select the next Pope from either Ethiopia or Nigeria.
Unless of course the Marxists and Churchians are rooted out and expelled.
But I don't see that happening.
Is there a 500 year cycle?
This Pope does suck.
Not surprised. About time.
The Nigerians are typically very orthodox. A Nigerian Pope would probably be a blessing.
Cardinal Sarah is from Guinea, not Nigeria, but he would make a fine Pope. No Latin Americans, please.
Look for Pope Francis to step down.
Leftists never abdicate power.
New Pope is a bit of a wackadoodle.
That megalomaniac? Never.
People are finally waking up to the fact that Jorge Bergoglio is much closer to being the Vicar of Lucifer than the Vicar of Christ.
His “choice” may have nothing to do with it.
No.
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