Posted on 11/25/2020 8:12:54 AM PST by ebb tide
November 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In a rant by Pope Francis where he lets down his guard and allows his leftist colors to show more than in the past, the Pope said of anti-lockdown protestors, “you’ll never find such people protesting the death of George Floyd, or joining a demonstration because there are shantytowns where children lack water or education, or because there are whole families who have lost their income.”
His comments come in a teaser for the Pope’s new book-length interview with leftist Vatican journalist Austen Ivereigh.
In it, the pope lashes out at anti-lockdown protestors, saying, “those who claim, for example, that being forced to wear a mask is an unwarranted imposition by the state.” He calls them, “victims only in their own imagination.”
But with all the virtue-signaling painfully evident in the book, Pope Francis himself is not all that concerned about mask-wearing in his own house, nor at large gatherings. Just yesterday, in the Vatican, he met with NBA players and officials from the National Basketball Players Association. The meeting took place indoors, without masks, and also without social distancing.
The Pope apparently requested the meeting in which they discussed the NBA’s efforts to promote racial equality and social justice. The NBA had painted “Black Lives Matter” on the court along their sideline, and donned “Equality” and other sayings on their jerseys.
Despite the frustration this outburst from Pope Francis may cause, it is in reality much less disturbing and harmful than the doctrinal errors he has put forward, such as those on divorced and remarried Catholics, on homosexual civil unions, on transgendered couples, on the Abu Dhabi statement, on cohabitation, and on so much more.
So, even though we may be tempted to anger, let’s offer up any feelings of frustration and let us rather pray earnestly for the Pope’s conversion. Yes, ‘conversion.’ Remember, that was Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s advice – to pray for the conversion of Pope Francis. And Bishop Schneider also gave us the best remedy to the Pope’s doctrinal confusion when he released his ‘declaration of truths’ with Cardinal Raymond Burke.
Smoking Pope Dope?
Black Smoke, Nope
Yellow Smoke, Sulfur
Well, it doesn’t mean ‘universal’ any more.
The Vatican could drill wells for every village in the 3d world if it liquidated its wealth
Someone tell the pope...
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/pope-francis-book-explores-george-floyd-virus-skeptics-74358533
Turning to the pandemic, Francis blasted people who protested anti-virus restrictions “as if measures that governments must impose for the good of their people constitute some kind of political assault on autonomy or personal freedom!”
Because "measures" that the government "imposes" can't possibly interfere with personal freedom. Not as long as they are "imposed" "for the good of the people".
High Priest of the Communist Party
he is not even little “c” catholic.
Little “c” catholic church, as used in some versions of the Apostles’ Creed, means the universal church
Dear Pope,
Do not forsake the gathering together of yourselves.
George Floyd, water, education...
Odd he did not mention abortion.
“or because there are whole families who have lost their income.”
and what do you think the lock down is doing to families frankie??
How much did the RC church suck out of these poor neighborhoods to support lavish lifestyles in the
Vatican?
I’m a Catholic, and I just wish he’d learn how to keep his mouth shut unless he’s talking about faith and morals. I’m not sure he knows anything about that either.
How many wells could you dig in Africa for the cost of one piece of art in your vaults below St Peter’s?
Dear Lord, we need a holy leader. Please send your lightening bolt to Rome now! Fill the Chair with a courageous shepherd. The gates of hell are ramping up. Send help now! Amen
We have a leader. Jesus Christ.
I know that this is a brief quote, possibly mistranslated, and that the Holy Father may be somewhat misinformed. But we protest the Wuhan coronavirus lockdowns precisely because
* people no longer can rely on social security because the benefits don’t pay for the secondary expenses
* people lost their jobs because the businesses at which they formerly worked lost income from former customers or because those businesses cannot operate as a matter of decree
* children now lack an opportunity for education because public schools, which long gave only partial and sometimes malicious educations, ceased operations or turned into nonfunctional or inaccessible or barely existent virtual academies
* children get thrown away from their former households and now cannot find shelter in the freezing cold because the lockdowns forbade the youth shelters from operating or the schools from directing hungry, shivering abandoned children to the few available resources (in some jurisdictions, head-count limits on household events require the breakup of large families)
* many whole families have lost their income; the government restrictions suddenly, arbitrarily, and forcible collapsed entire sectors of the economy, leaving tens of millions of formerly hardworking Americans without income or sustenance; because of shutdowns, cramming, lack of technology, lack of knowledge, widespread fraud, and bureaucratic slowness and inefficiency, most of the unemployed never got benefits, even if they qualified.
We don’t protest children going without water. We raise money to provide wells and water systems for their villages.
I think this man is...mistaken in many of his thoughts.
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