One Priest’s Concern About Recent Remarks by the Pope

The National Catholic Register ^ | 6/24/16 | Msgr Charles Pope

[marshmallow]

I would like to make, as a parish priest in trenches, a few remarks concerning the Pope’s recent statements in Rome at a gathering of priests and seminarians. Others have admirably remarked on his troubling remarks on marriage and cohabitation. I will not add to those. But I would like to focus on two other reported remarks the Pope made about priests to the effect that some of us are cruel, are putting our noses into people’s moral life and possibly that he even called some of us animals.

And while most of these remarks, recorded and widely reported, were not included, or were “adjusted” in the Vatican transcript, they cannot simply be unsaid. And even the clarifications remain troubling.

I write these remarks simply as a parish priest. I am not a canonist and certainly not a reporter. I react simply as a priest to what has been reported all week, and write here the reaction of one man and priest—me.

First, it is reported that the Pope said pastors should not be “putting our noses into the moral life of other people.”

Permit me to state my utter bewilderment at such a notion. As a priest, and especially as a confessor and spiritual director this is my duty! It is true that I am not to unnecessarily pry into the private lives of parishioners. But surely there is a requirement that as a confessor and a pastor I have some sense of the moral life of those to whom I minister.

Consider a medical analogy. Suppose a patient comes to a doctor with breathing difficulties and chest pains. Surely the doctor will inquire as to the person’s lifestyle. Does he smoke? Did he ever smoke? What sort of food is being consumed? Does he exercise? What is.......

[piusv]

Well, for starters, those that continue to "recognize" him as pope only help to legitimize his authority and perpetuate the confusion throughout the Catholic world. And in that sense he will remain "pope" and nothing will change.

Perhaps if more and more faithful Catholics (especially the clergy) actually spoke the obvious truth about him, something would change. Not doing so certainly won't bring about change.

Those who sit by and say "there is nothing we can do..boo hoo" are just part of the bigger problem: which is that we don't have a true pope.

[Arthur McGowan]

Fair enough.

I think I do my part.

I have said often enough he is a sock puppet of the totalitarians. He mouths the latest line from the U.N. He is for No Borders in Europe and North America. Notice he has nothing to say about any injustices in any non-white country. Not a word about the Rape Culture that includes the entire world EXCEPT where white Christian Europeans have established a culture.

All that matters is that Europe and North America MUST be overwhelmed with Mexicans and Muslims. He repeats the lie that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.

When it comes to anything Catholic, he has nothing to say, unless it’s to undermine the sacraments, moral teachings, etc.

Nightmare: When Bergoglio dies, we get Tagle, that grinning idiot, also a puppet of the NWO.

And WHO appointed ALL the current Cardinals who gave us Bergoglio?

JPII and BXVI.

[piusv]

And WHO appointed ALL the current Cardinals who gave us Bergoglio? JPII and BXVI.

Thanks for making this point. This fact should tell us a lot right there. At the very least it should stop folks from pining for what I call "the savior pope" (aka Ratzinger). He wasn't forced to resign. Enough already. He wasn't forced to resign. He was a willful participant in the up and coming "Bergoglio papacy"(not directing this at you).

[Arthur McGowan]

A very well-informed, scholarly friend of mine says, “Ratzinger is a 1950’s liberal.” He was talking specifically about why Ratzinger thought that a resignation was even an option. (Not questioning the reality or validity of the resignation. Even Pius XII signed an instrument of resignation, to be effective in the event of a kidnapping. He said that Hitler “will not have the Pope, but only Pacelli.”)

[Arthur McGowan]

It is clearer and clearer that Bergoglio is just one of Obama’s fellow “post turtles.” Totally unqualified, morally unfit, uneducated, not very bright, but willing to mouth any stupid slogan the U.N./E.U./Soros/Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley/NWO instructs him to, from “shacking up is a sacrament” to “carbon dioxide is a pollutant.”