Posted on 04/23/2018 7:01:18 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME, April 21, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — The author of the top-selling book The Dictator Pope has said Pope Francis isn’t a reformer but rather a “maverick pope” who “acts like a dictator” and has “completely gone off the rails.”
In a video interview with the National Catholic Register published on Saturday (watch interview below), author and historian Henry Sire says Francis is “one of the more disastrous pontificates in history,” and he felt it necessary to reveal the “gap” between Francis’ public image and the “reality as it is known in the Vatican.”
Sire says he had no intention of writing a balanced picture of Francis’ papacy as he intended the book “to be an alarm call.”
“When you’re shouting ‘Fire!’ when the house is on fire, you don’t say: ‘Well actually the fire is doing quite good work cooking the chicken in the kitchen,’” Sire explains.
The Dictator Pope was published as an e-book in November last year under the pseudonym Marcantonio Colonna, the 16th century admiral of the papal fleet at the Battle of Lepanto. Regnery Publishing will release a completely revised and updated print edition of the book on April 23.
In his first video interview, Sire said that Francis is essentially a “politician who relies on public relations” and who “is a dictator” in the tradition of the former Argentine populist leader, Juan Peron. Peronists, Sire said, are “complete opportunists” who are neither left nor right wing, and this “sums up Pope Francis exactly.”
Born in Barcelona of a family of French ancestry, Sire was educated at Stonyhurst College, a prestigious private Jesuit school in England, and then went on to study history at Oxford University.
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I’ve known some wonderful Jesuits, as well as some awful ones. One of my best friends and my Adviser for some years was Fr. Francis X. Weiser, S.J. He taught at Boston College while I was at Harvard, and I asked him over a number of times to speak to members of the Harvard Catholic Club, which was being misled and abandoned by the remaining priests at the college. He was a good friend of my Aunt, and we used to have monthly gatherings with a circle of friends to discuss the True Faith.
Anyway, he was a saint, in my opinion, if not officially. You can look up the books he wrote on Amazon. Some of the best things you could read in those dismal times.
Ah Cicero! One much beloved by the Spanish Scholastics and our Founding Fathers.
“He’s a Jesuit. That should tell us all we need to know.”
You’re exactly right. The Order should have been dissolved over a hundred years ago. They lost the faith well before that. For years Jesuits all over the world have ignored Catholic doctrine....and hardly ever called out on it. I think he was installed to destroy the Catholic faith. Bergoglio the great Destroyer.
Have you ever read the Jesuit Oath of Induction? I’ll post a link. Make sure you read the BIG paragraph in red.
http://www.reformation.org/jesuit-oath.html
Sounds a lot like Islam doesn’t it? I guess I’m an infidel and a heretic.
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