‘This Pontificate Is Worse Than the Falklands War’

The American Spectator ^ | September 01, 2019 | George Neumayr

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‘This Pontificate Is Worse Than the Falklands War’

Far from reviving Catholicism in Buenos Aires, this pontificate has deflated it. “Immediately after his election church attendance seemed to go up a little bit,” said one Argentine Catholic. “But now it has gone down. Parishes which once had perpetual Eucharistic adoration no longer have it. The situation in Buenos Aires has gone from bad to worse.” Another Argentine Catholic tells me, “I stopped going to daily Mass because the quality of it has become such a joke.”

Indeed, many of the Catholic institutions in Buenos Aires seem either ghost-townish or in the hands of open heretics. (The Vatican nunciature looked like an abandoned haunted house.) I walked into an archdiocesan bookstore in the heart of Buenos Aires only to see placed in its most prominent display case fawning books about Hans Küng, one of the most heretical theologians of the 20th century.

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I ran into an American student who is taking courses at Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), Buenos Aires’s most prominent Catholic university. How Catholic, I asked him, is it? “Not at all,” he said. “It attracts a lot of obnoxious liberals. Liberalism is out of control here. UCA is even less Catholic than Jesuit Boston College, which I have also attended.” That made me laugh; I had never heard of a school less Catholic than that secularized mess of a Boston university.

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Pope Francis branded Britain 'usurpers' over Falklands conflict

[Robert DeLong]

He’s a joke, only I can’t laugh and I’m not even Catholic. Saddens me deeply to see the catholic religion be so degraded nonetheless by this fraud, Francis.

[FormerFRLurker]

I’ve been in Argentina. The crazy leftism doesn’t surprise me at all. They may have a conservative president now but he may not be re-elected next month. Pray for Argentina.

[txnativegop]

this is what happens when a heretic is elected to be Pope. My father and his parents were Catholics, I am not. But it is rather obvious that Francis I is not a Christian no matter how well or how far you message the meaning of the word. JMO and no offense is intended

[thoughtomator]

The functional definition of “Catholic” appears to be, at the present time, to be “a pederast, or someone who will tolerate one indefinitely”.

[Buckeye McFrog]

“a pederast, or someone who will tolerate one indefinitely”.

That is my problem with my fellow Catholics who insist they are sticking by Holy Mother Church, forever and for all eternity, come what may.

To do so is actually enabling these people. Let’s face it, as lay people we have absolutely ZERO power to change the power structure in the Vatican. At some point our only choice is to leave and start over again.

Do they really hate Martin Luther that much that they won’t even acknowledge the possibility?

[papertyger]

Do they really hate Martin Luther that much that they won’t even acknowledge the possibility?

The "possibility" does not exist. And compounding a problem is never a good solution.

The Sacraments are the source and summit of the faith.

[pbear8]

Let’s face it, as lay people we have absolutely ZERO power to change the power structure in the Vatican.

You have more power than you think. Throughout history, in times such as these, God has raised up a man to set things right. Pray for this to happen soon. Pray without ceasing.