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The Fool in the Vatican
Town Hall ^ | September 11, 2019 | William Marshall

Posted on 09/12/2019 9:07:30 AM PDT by ebb tide

The Fool in the Vatican

I never thought I would refer to a Pope as a fool, but it has come to that. If in so doing my fellow Catholics condemn me as somehow blaspheming against the Mother Church or God, so be it. But after reading Francis X. Rocca's article in the September 11 edition of the Wall Street Journal, which has the pontiff saying that it would be "an honor that [conservative Catholic] Americans attack me," for not standing up for traditional Catholic teachings on marriage, sexuality and bioethics, while instead opining on climate change and migration, I can't hold my tongue.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic
KEYWORDS: francischism; francischurch
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1 posted on 09/12/2019 9:07:30 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

I have a feeling Benedict was forced out or he would have met the fate of JP the first.


2 posted on 09/12/2019 9:09:33 AM PDT by Mr. K
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To: Mr. K

Agree


3 posted on 09/12/2019 9:10:54 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: ebb tide

Once again it seems everyone thinks they are a better Roman Catholic than the Pope.


4 posted on 09/12/2019 9:11:39 AM PDT by Gamecock (Time is short Eternity is long It is reasonable that this short life be lived in light of eternity)
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To: Gamecock
It's called being a Protestant
5 posted on 09/12/2019 9:15:06 AM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: ebb tide

Being a cradle catholic, sometimes i find myself wondering how much the pope can move the church away from the original dogma...

ruff.


6 posted on 09/12/2019 9:15:28 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: ebb tide

Pope Francis has done more to divide the Catholic Church than anyone else. YES!! I am Catholic, Old enough to remember Pope John the 23rd, Pope Paul the Sixth and Both Popes John Paul’s I and II. Pope Francis is completely the opposite and IMOHO an anti-Pope. Telling us that we must kowtow to the UN and follow them instead of our Country’s leader and be part of the One World Government!!


7 posted on 09/12/2019 9:17:59 AM PDT by RollingThunder ( SPRINO - Self-Centered, Power-Hungry, Repulsive Idiot, Negating Order.)
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To: ebb tide
This Catholic has a sense of detachment from the whole thing.

To be charitable, I've decided that Pope Francis is simply retarded.

8 posted on 09/12/2019 9:20:50 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: Gamecock

“Once again it seems everyone thinks they are a better Roman Catholic than the Pope.”

We are ALL drowning is a sea of heretical teachers. Let’s not go throwing stones, shall we? The Lord’s angels will separate the sheep from the goats.


9 posted on 09/12/2019 9:22:03 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus (<img src=(;.()))
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To: Gamecock
Once again it seems everyone thinks they are a better Roman Catholic than the Pope.

In this case, they are all correct.

10 posted on 09/12/2019 9:25:30 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: ebb tide

It’s so painful to watch the Church go through this. The rot must run very deep and wide.


11 posted on 09/12/2019 9:29:22 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: ebb tide

Ironic, is it not, that the Pope has as little knowledge of his own religion as he does of science. There were times when Jesuits were pretty good masters of both. (LeMaitre comes to mind.)


12 posted on 09/12/2019 9:32:40 AM PDT by Da Coyote (eh)
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To: ebb tide

He’s not the fool some people think he is. He knows exactly what he’s doing.


13 posted on 09/12/2019 9:51:20 AM PDT by AlaskaErik
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To: Alberta's Child

Far too charitable methinks. The kindest thing I can say about him is he’s retarded.


14 posted on 09/12/2019 9:53:58 AM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Mr. K

I agree.


15 posted on 09/12/2019 9:55:03 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Gamecock

“Once again it seems everyone thinks they are a better Roman Catholic than the Pope”.

So you like and support this Pope?


16 posted on 09/12/2019 9:56:10 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: ebb tide

The pope is a fool and a jerk. He proved he was unfit for office when he arranged the “deal” bammy/castro, and bammy/iran mullas. He is a politiian and not a pope. He is a disgrace.


17 posted on 09/12/2019 9:59:42 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: SaxxonWoods
The rot must run very deep and wide.

Many did not believe that of the US Government, either, until Trump pulled back the curtain.

18 posted on 09/12/2019 10:04:09 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: M. Thatcher

Bergoglio is a Soros puppet.
That leftist freak has his fingers so far up Bergoglio’s butt they stick out his mouth.
These leftists are destroying Christianity
Christianity has always been linked to western civilization. In essence, it created western civilization.
Hence the left’s need to destroy it.
But regardless of whether it is the Papal Chair or the pulpits of most major Protestant sects, all you hear is the same leftwing bull preached.

Wake up Christian’s and reject and EJECT these leftwing mouthpieces or watch your faith and your civilization collapse.


19 posted on 09/12/2019 10:14:51 AM PDT by ZULU (Impeach John Roberts for corruption. SOROS IS "SPARTACUS" BOOKER'S LANISTA.)
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To: Gamecock
"Once again, it seems everyone thinks they are a more patriotic American than the President"

What you wrote is no more a contradiction than what I wrote above. Is it necessarily true? No, but it's not inherently false, either.

Besides, the Pope is a sinner, too. Fraternal correction, offered in charity, is sometimes our positive duty.

20 posted on 09/12/2019 10:26:55 AM PDT by Campion ((marine dad))
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