Posted on 04/28/2025 6:45:09 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
THE outpouring of grief following the death of Pope Francis was like a wall of noise, a practically uninterrupted blanket of praise, a seamless garment of tribute. Even his enemies fought to temper their public comments, undoubtedly conscious of the enduring Latin injunction de mortuis nil nisi bonum, that one must not speak ill of the dead.
It was only in private conversations that one could truly gauge the true sentiments of rank-and-file Catholics. One devout woman, orthodox but very much in the mainstream of the Church, confided to me that when she heard of the death of Francis on Easter Monday, ‘I couldn’t help but weep with immense relief – thanking the Lord that it was finally over’.
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“”””When I was interviewed by GB News on Monday, it was put to me that Francis was a ‘humble’ man and, although I wished to be charitable, I had to demur.””””
During his first year or two that is all we heard here, was how humble he was, but a lot of people knew he was going to be a problem, I don’t if anyone knew just how disastrous he would be though, and disastrous on such a large and enduring scale, and we still don’t know what will follow.
The homosexual pope aligned with Obama.
I can tell you that myself and my also catholic best friend shed no tears. And neither one of us would bet the farm on which way he went.
He was not a good man.
I know extreme Catholics who eventually turned on this pope.
The current state of the Church is what you get when you accept an oath breaker as your leader. Jesuits are not supposed to seek positions of authority.
I don’t know much about any outpouring of grief but maybe it’s not all grief if you know what I mean. Most people who would be relieved would still be gracious to the deceased.
It’s actually stronger than that. Their constitutions said that they were not to accept the office of bishop unless they could not refuse without sinning.
Take with a grain of salt, but I heard from one source that his “humble” practice of living at the Casa Santa Marta instead of the Apostolic Palace actually cost the Vatican a lot of money for security for the adjacent street, etc. False “humility” IMO.
We don't know that yet. Supposedly Padre Pio prophesied that the Church would suffer under two apostate Popes, and that the second would be worse than the first. Not clear that they were necessarily consecutive, though.
Since the time of Henry VIII, the Catholic Church has been hardline on recognizing divorces. Catholics who wish to remarry need to got through a difficult, and expensive, process to get their failed marriages annulled. In the modern world of feminism and frequent divorce, that means a loss of congregants. Rather than revise church teachings on that, or at least reduce the cost of annulment, Francis ceased recognizing homosexuality as sinful or a mental illness. Traditional Catholics are relieved that someone new will now address these matters.
An aide to the Mahatma Gandhi during his 1950s NYC said that he had to take taxis all over NYC for the rare (at the time) ingredients for Gandhi’s humble vegetarian diet and that never had so much money been spent on such humble meals.
Ditto, for myself, my wife and all my Catholic friends. Who all tend to be conservative.
Even our former Deacon was not a big fan. Again, mostly because Franky was a Jesuit.
An Awful Pope. Let’s be candid.
In May 1816, Adams wrote to Jefferson about the “restoration” of the Society of Jesus: “I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola’s. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.”
Gandhi was assassinated in 1948.
Good Catholics? Where? Where have they been hiding out for decades?
These are the ones who stood by the Vatican when it did nothing but pay weirgeld for pedos. Didn’t demand excommunication and turning over to civil authorities for prison. No, protected them. And, the “good catholics” let them get away with it. This is how you let an administration rot out from the inside — wring your hands and pray to a Gawd who has obviously quit listening to you.
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