Posted on 11/28/2022 6:28:18 PM PST by ebb tide
President George W. Bush once offered a reflection on gullibility and betrayal. He told a crowd “Fool me once, shame on … shame on you. Fool me … . You can’t get fooled again!'” The president managed to mash together an old saying that ends “Fool me twice, shame on me” with half-remembered lyrics from a Who song (“Won’t Get Fooled Again”).
A Bushian level of befuddlement must now prevail in the Vatican, as Pope Francis watches his hopeful alliance with China collapse into comprehensive failure. Francis’s right-hand man, Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, touted the Vatican’s secret agreement with China as a diplomatic coup, even praising the Communist regime as a better model of Catholic social teaching than Trump’s United States.
The deal which Ted McCarrick brought home from Beijing (just before being exposed for sex abuse and disgraced) was supposed to end decades of suspicion and hostility. The persecution which began with Mao Zedong was meant to give way to cooperation and build up trust.
Certainly, Francis spent every last cent of the church’s moral capital on making nice with China. He didn’t denounce its persecution of millions of Uyghur Muslims or even its savage crackdown on peaceful local Christians. When the regime arrested or “disappeared” Chinese bishops — his colleagues and moral equals — Francis said nothing.
When the dissident Cardinal Joseph Zen managed to get three days of freedom from jail and flew to Rome, Pope Francis refused to meet with him. When China issued fake bibles that butchered the words of Jesus Himself in the Gospel to justify ...
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Frank needs to join the Unitarian-Universalist
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What the Pope does not seem to understand, that this non-Catholic lay person can easily understand, is that God does not want an alliance with anti-Christian China, any more than God wanted an alliance with anti-Christian Rome 2000 years ago. God wants His Church to burst the gates of hell, free the captives, and bring them salvation through the blood of the cross. Alliances with the devil’s own are not the foundation on which the church is to be built; the church’s one foundation, as the hymn says, is Jesus Christ, her Lord.
GWB should have quoted AC/DC. But all the cards were coming from the bottom of the pack. And If I’d known what she was dealing out, I’d have dealt them back.
Yeah, but he went with Ozzie Osborne instead.
Pope Marx is a Marxist. He has no time for non marxists. His job is to destroy the Catholic church.
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