Posted on 06/17/2016 4:49:23 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Francis said Thursday that the majority of the words that come “spilling” out of his mouth are invalid because most of the time he doesn’t understand that what he says is permanent.
“We live in a culture of the provisional,” the Pontiff said, responding to a question about the “crisis of his pontificate.”
Francis said he often doesn’t comprehend the importance of what he’s saying when speaking off-the-cuff, which he said is “indissoluble.”
“Sadly in today’s pontificate, I don’t understand that what I say will have ramifications for not only my pontificate, but of the many pontificates to come,” he said. “I say something random, and people do not know what it means. And because people listen to me with the philosophy that I am the Pope, they believe I have fully contemplated and formulated what I am saying, which is, in many cases, not the case. This then makes what I say null.”
Francis went on to say that when Catholics have to spend most of their working lives defending what he says, and having to write blog posts or responses to comments on a combox asking if the “pope really said such and such,” clearly there is something invalid in many of the “weird, weird, weird” things that somehow manage to find their way from his brain to his mouth.
I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out whether this pope was being misquoted, taken out of context, or was saying stuff that Catholics ought to be concerned about.
Early on, I think he was being misquoted and taken out of context. And I still don’t know. I figure it’s a Catholic problem. Let then figure it out.
It took 3 years as Pope for Francis to finally admit that he is an azzhole.
Travis would be wise to shut up
You should mark this satire
I am honestly starting to question whether the Pope is suffering from some senile dementia. I say this as a Catholic.
If he were truly filled with the Holy Spirit this wouldn’t be an issue.
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