[apillar]

Pope Francis is stepping on a lot of the toes of the true powers that be in the Vatican. I really wouldn’t be surprised if one day he is found dead in his quarters under mysterious circumstance like Pope John Paul I....

[yldstrk]

The Pope needs keep his trap shut because he is proving to be someone who cannot think straight.

[Uncle Miltie]

So the early fears of a “Social Justice” socialist pope were right or wrong?

[cherry]

these are dark days....I can truly see underlings changing the words or phrases that the Pope has said and publicize them...

dark days...

[Jeff Chandler]

This article sums things up very well.

[seeker41]

Something very wrong here...

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/2013/10/my-interview-with-pope-francis.html

Pope says in interview from above link:

Proselytism is solemn nonsense. It makes no sense. I recently had an interview with the Italian atheist Alfredo Sauce and I assured him that I did not want to convert him.

I repeat it here. Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.”

[Alex Murphy]

I don’t know if I’m the only one to have noticed, but there seems to be something strange going on in the Vatican. No, I’m not talking about all that, at least not directly. I’m talking about the strange, long, almost awkward and, dare I say it, embarrassed silence, that has reigned from the Vatican’s press office on all of Pope Francis’s extraordinary statements and actions since his election....

....In the nearly ten years I’ve been covering Vatican and Catholic-related news, through three papacies now, I don’t remember a time when the uproar caused by things a pope is saying and doing has reached so deeply into the minds of orthodox believers....for weeks, there was nothing; no clarification, no corrections or denials at all from inside the Vatican’s walls. The Catholic world outside was starting to wonder just what is going on in there. Nothing, that is, until last Thursday...Not only was there no comment or clarifications in the prepared remarks at that press conference, Fr. Lombardi had nothing prepared for what he must have known would be the main point of interest for journalists. He seemed, simply, to be caught off guard....

....Scalfari and Lombardi have both insisted that Pope Francis was shown the final text and approved it, although it is not “clear how closely the Pope read it”.

Ping for later

[informavoracious]

Almost like he is the Obama of popes. He says ambiguous statements that people project their own wishes on. Yet he says that be conforms with the beliefs of the Church.

[johngrace]

Thank you for the article. Interesting.

[Java4Jay]

ping

[Fester Chugabrew]

People have the same misgivings about the Christ, who sits down and eats with sinners. This Pope has been forthcoming about the need for mercy and absolution in a sick world, and the world hates him for it. It is better to let the Pope speak and let his official press remain silent. Let his words speak for themselves, and if you have doubts or misgivings, ask the Pope to explain further in his own words. From what I’ve read so far - in his own words - the Pope speaks very much in accord with the catholic Faith.

[Patriot Babe]

Well there is something strange in the White House

[miele man]

Thank you for posting this. Bump for later consideration and reflection.

[Jonty30]

Ping for later

[Rockingham]

Pope Francis seems to be performing as a one man act, scorning both the Vatican’s traditional papal apartments and its bureaucracy while likely aiming at major changes in its personnel and operations. I wonder if at the upcoming general synod, Pope Francis intends to curtail key aspects of the papacy as to its pomp and governance powers.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

This is basically how the Vatican would be run if Obama had been elected Pope.

[jboot]

Thank you for posting this. As a sympathetic Protestant, I am concerned about the utterances of Francis I and their impact on Christians in every church. He seems to be spreading confusion and doubt. I cannot accept that somehow everything he says is being mis-reported or mis-translated. There is something else at work here.

I deeply respected B14 and-despite the usual doctrinal objections, which are of no importance to this conversation-found his theology to be sound and clear-in short, a light in the darkness. With so many Protestant churches going wobbly and leaders going even wobblier it was good to have such a powerful voice for orthodoxy. I miss him greatly.

[jodyel]

Just now cluing in to that?

[BlatherNaut]

Bergoglio has scandalized Catholics and Orthodox Jews in Argentina – with his ongoing "interfaith dialogue" and honoring of Abraham Skorka, a liberal rabbi of the Benei Tikva community in Buenos Aires. Bergoglio has scandalized Catholics and Orthodox Jews in Argentina – with his ongoing "interfaith dialogue" and honoring of Abraham Skorka, a liberal rabbi of the Benei Tikva community in Buenos Aires. Skorka, who openly supports homosexual unions, is also the rector of the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano (Latin American Rabbinical Seminary). Skorka is known for his heretical charlatanism, offensive in both Catholic and Jewish circles. Skorka, who openly supports homosexual unions, is also the rector of the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano (Latin American Rabbinical Seminary). Skorka is known for his heretical charlatanism, offensive in both Catholic and Jewish circles

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/marielena/130316

Something very wrong with this excess of ecumenism which is apparently of the sort that is willing to overlook such blatant disregard for Biblical teachings. I read a link on another thread that Pope Francis has hosted this pro-homosexual Rabbi at his Vatican guest house and plans to travel with him to the Holy Land.

[nanetteclaret]

From the Syllabus of Errors, Pope Pius IX, Dec. 8, 1864:

15. Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true. (Indifferentism and False Tolerance)