Posted on 06/05/2021 6:20:02 AM PDT by marshmallow
European country standing up for persecuted Christians gets raw deal
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis is sparking off a diplomatic stink with Hungary after he expressed reluctance to tour the country or meet its political leaders, limiting his forthcoming trip instead to a three-hour stop.
Although the pontiff will celebrate the closing Mass at the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress being held in Budapest from Sept. 5–12, he does not plan to call on the Catholic head of state President János Áder and evangelical Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Pope Francis may hop across the border and spend three and a half days in Slovakia — a move that is being seen as a "a gigantic slap in the face" of Orbán, Vaticanist Edward Pentin reported Thursday.
Negative 'Diplomacy'
Lambasting the pope's diplomatic bungle as "outrageous," a Budapest churchman compared the papal snub to Francis "spending half a day in Israel and then three and a half days in Iran, or half a day in Poland and then traveling to Russia for a few days."
Cardinal Péter Erdő of Esztergom-Budapest and Hungary's deputy prime minister Zsolt Semjén visited Rome last week to plead for a longer visit.
"Something is not right here, at least from the point of view of diplomacy and protocol," Luis Badilla Morales, editor of Italian news aggregator Il Sismografo, wrote Thursday. "Thinking like this is the wrong move."
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Wow. When did you go to Gonzaga? I went to Santa Clara, undergraduate and graduate, in the 80s. All
But to a man they were all left wing hacks
Spitzers Universe, clear headed thinking right there.
Go Broncos! Not an SCU alum myself but have had a lot of family attend. My main impression was that a lot pretty girls went there in the ‘80s/’90s (and maybe now for all I know).
But, yes, the Jesuits are mostly leftist and/or effeminate hacks. Once in a while you’d run into an old-school Jebbie who’d joined up, say, pre-1950, who was okay. And then there are a few outlier conservatives like Joe Fessio SJ but they’re rare birds.
Is it just me, or does the MSM ignore Bergoglio as much as they can, giving him maximum cover while he goes about his works of destruction?
LOL! That’s exactly what I was thinking!
The thing about liberals is they’re like rust, they never sleep. You can mock their most recent stupid ideas, but they just keep plowing ahead until their idiocy becomes mainstream. I was a political science major, and a healthy number of us mocked our professors behind their backs. Now, that I can tell, the student body has been coopted into their ideas.
He hated the USA under Trump, and he hates Hungary. This is not the successor of Peter. This is an angry, petty, mean-spiritied marxist who is using his office to enact marxist goals.
I know there’s something in the Constitution about suffrage. I think I’ve suffraged enough already.
Fr. Spitzer, whom I met when he was president of Gonzaga, was too Catholic for the Jesuits and was secretly forced out of the university. Fortunately for him and us, he is creative and brilliant enough that he moved up to better things.
Catholic church get rid of the charlatan
The most devout Catholics right now can’t stand this guy if they see it we all see it
Get rid of him
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