Posted on 03/13/2017 9:23:40 AM PDT by NRx
On the first Saturday in February, the people of Rome awoke to find the city covered in peculiar posters depicting a scowling Pope Francis. Underneath were written the words:
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?
The reference to mercy was a jibe that any Catholic could understand. Francis had just concluded his ‘Year of Mercy’, during which the church was instructed to reach out to sinners in a spirit of radical forgiveness. But it was also a year in which the Argentinian pontiff continued his policy of squashing his critics with theatrical contempt.
Before the Year of Mercy, he had removed (or ‘decapitated’) the leaders of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, apparently for their traditionalist sympathies. During it, he froze out senior churchmen who questioned his plans to allow divorced-and-remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion. As the year finished, the papal axe fell on the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Fra’ Matthew Festing, who during an internal row over the alleged distribution of condoms by its charitable arm had robustly asserted the crusader order’s 800-year sovereignty. Francis seized control of the knights. They are sovereign no longer.
So the sarcasm of asking the Pope about his ‘mercy’ is pretty obvious. But Italians noticed something else. ‘A France’… ma n’do sta la tua misericordia?’ is local dialect — the Romanesco slang in which citizens taunted corrupt or tyrannical popes before the fall of the Papal States in 1870.
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I for one hope there is a plot against the Pope he is destroying the Catholic Church.
For the very action against those at Malta, and the historical action dah choich did against those at Malta, this pope needs the horse head in his bed.
Don’t worry, Frank will solve everything by converting to Islam.
The problem is that he wants the rest of the Church to convert with him.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
I’ve heard there is a Soros-Francis connection.. not sure if it is true.
But I thought the Roman Catholic Church was inerrant & unassailable?
Why would there be a plot against the Pope if he is Heaven-chosen?
Let them. Maybe the next Pope is to be found in China - which will soon have more Christians than the rest of the world combined ...
Every day he’s not ousted hurts The Church more.
1) The pope is only infallible under certain very restricted conditions, and Francis hasn't met them.
2) He was chosen by the College of Cardinals.
Conclusion I’m reaching: the RCC is perfect except for where it isn’t, and anyone questioning which is which is a heretic.
The teachings are infallible, but the {Pope is only infallible on matters of faith and morals, and only when he announces that he is making a statement infallibly. Francis hasn't done that. We believe that the Holy Spirit prevents the Pope from pronouncing something infallibly if it's against Church teaching. And so far, that's proven to be correct.
So...letting divorcees partake communion is correct? He’s pronouncing it, and who may partake communion is surely a core teaching.
Like I said: “perfect except where it isn’t”.
What is your church’s teaching about Holy Communion?
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