Posted on 08/31/2023 12:24:39 PM PDT by ebb tide
Let’s say you are the Pope.
Not any Pope. A very “special” one.
You hate Catholics, all of them. They remind you that they have a faith that you don’t have; that you have entered the seminary only to scrounge a comfortable, privileged existence; that they are better human beings, in every sense of the word, that you ever were. In short, you hate Catholics because they are good, that is: the contrary of you.
You also notice that they avoid you. St Peter’s Square has become a desert. People just tune you out. Those who defend you are generally hated by those very Catholics you hate. Those who defend you are, often, perverts in one way or another.
Let’s say that you want to go out a bit, and need to choose some unfortunate foreign Country for the exercise. But Catholics hate you, and you know it. They show up in such little numbers at the airport, that soon a small reception room will be more than sufficient. Darn, the Pole got half a million at a time, just with a bit of kissing-the-earth kumbaya, and you can’t even get a pale imitation of it, no matter how many people in wheelchair you line up! It certainly can’t be a Catholic country. Your predecessors have been pretty much everywhere, and they would make you look stupid.
At some point, you speak to your secretary, and say to him: “secretary, name me a Country with an extremely limited of Catholics!”
“But why, your holiness?” – says the poor sod.
“Because I hate them a… erm, because I want to go to the peripheries”, answers our hero. “What have you got, secretary?”
“There would be Montecarlo, Your Holiness. Bunch of rich heathens. Very near, too”.
“Naah. Too capitalistic. Too near, too!”
“What about Saudi Arabia, Your Holiness? Quite the infidels, those ones!”
“Naaah. The Pole already kissed a Koran there. There’s no way I can better that”.
What about Mongolia, your holiness?
“Mongolia? “
“Yes. Mongolia. Very few Catholics over there, otherwise full of atheists, infidels and heathens. Excellent evangelization ground!”.
“But I don’t want to convert them! And please, don’t use those difficult words, cazzo*! “
“You don’t want to.. erm… but I thought… oh well anyway, I was saying, very few Catholics and, for the rest, a Christ-free space”.
“Excellent, Secretary! I will go there! Please make the necessary arrangement!”
*Verbatim, Pope Francis.
Ping
Apostolic Peyote?
Mary’s Mushrooms?
For the small amount of good done by pope Jack@$$, can we tolerate all his evil?
What “good” has he done? Please name one.
Awful lot of sick catholic crap on this board.
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