In an interview filled with what we can only term theological gobbledegook with nary a reference to the Bible, but loads of mystical vertiginous malarkey, Francis the pope of Rome has come out with unprecedented cold-hearted malice toward defenseless, unborn children.
Let us anticipate the response of his defenders and rejoin in advance: no, the pope was not quoted out of context, or misquoted. We’re going to give you his quote in context; and it is said he was handed a copy of his interview and allowed to check and edit it before its publication in the Jesuit magazine, America.
Here are the pontiff’s documented words, in context. First on homosexuality:
“We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner,” the pope says, “preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound. In Buenos Aires I used to receive letters from homosexual persons who are ‘socially wounded’ because they tell me that they feel like the church has always condemned them. But the church does not want to do this. During the return flight from Rio de Janeiro I said that if a homosexual person is of good will and is in search of God, I am no one to judge. By saying this, I said what the catechism says. Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.
“A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?’ We must always consider the person. Here we enter into the mystery of the human being. In life, God accompanies persons, and we must accompany them, starting from their situation. It is necessary to accompany them with mercy. When that happens, the Holy Spirit inspires the priest to say the right thing.” (End quote).
Where in the catechism does it say the pontiff has no right to judge a homosexual?
What is this pope babbling about when he says, “...it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person”?
Furthermore, what is “gay” about sodomy? If God, as the pope claims, “endorses the existence” of a person who practices sodomy, how could God ever send that person to hell?
Nowhere does the pope mention a little something known as sin. He offers no reasons for the sodomite to stop sodomizing. After all, God Himself “endorses the existence” of the sodomite. So why not continue in one’s sins? What is the impetus for change?
The pontiff’s documented words, in context, on abortion and contraception:
"We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible. I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that. But when we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time...The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently...We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.” (End quote).
Perhaps someone should tell the pope it is not necessary for the post-Vatican II Church to insist only on issues related to the Nazi “Holocaust," anti-semitism and the defense of Talmudic Judaism as possessing an unbroken covenant with God. "We have to find a new balance." Does the pope agree? Would he be caught dead saying that the pastoral ministry cannot be “obsessed” with the Nazi “Holocaust”?
We don't believe, short of a divine miracle, Francis would ever make such a statement, for unlike the dehumanized and marginalized unborn children awaiting the executioner's invasion of their mother's womb, the Nazi "Holocaust" lobby has enormous power on earth. The victims of the abortion holocaust have no such lobby with comparable power on earth.
Let us also not forget that this coffin-rider who calls himself pope is declaring that too much has been said against birth control (contraception). The people who brought the Gospel to the world, who inhabit the nations of Britain, Ireland, Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States, are self-extinguishing due to contraception being winked at by their religious leaders — and now it is minimized by the pope himself. This is incredible. It is totally revolutionary. Even the pope of Vatican II, Paul VI, devoted himself to composing the encyclical Humane Vitae, closing the door forever on artificial contraception. But Francis declares, "We have to find a new balance.” Between what, life and death? (Rev. 3:15).
According to fake prophecies cooked up during the Renaissance and attributed to the medieval St. Malachy, the current Pope Francis is the last pontiff, dubbed, in that phony prophecy, “Peter Romanus.”
We propose a new name for him, Diabolus Romanus.
I must agree.
ReplyDeleteAlas the majority of Church goers in the West may well support this man!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this fine commentary!
What is this pope babbling about when he says, “...it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person”?
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He reveals himself as an enemy of the Gospel and accomplice to the rabbis and bankers. I might reconsider in the unlikely case that he would tell the rabbis and bankers that they cannot spiritually interfere in the lives of children by sending them to the 'Holocaust' guilt chambers.
So you are denying that the primary objective of Jesus great Commission is to spread the good news of God's gift of salvation. Because that sir, was all the Pope was trying to get across.
ReplyDeleteApparently, you on the other hand, like so many modern Pharisees, would choose to concentrate your efforts on what your fellow man was doing wrong.
If we must, according to the latest homiletic lucubrations of this latest iteration of the crypto-Rabbinic institution of Popo the Clown, exercise the severest restraint in censuring sodomites and baby killers or even so much as questioning the petty cry-me-a-river victimologies by which they bamboozle and browbeat ordinary people into a state of rigorously enforced moral submission and silence, then why not extend the same "spiritually enlightened" munificence to others with similarly incorrigible impulses and proclivities? Why, we may ask, does it make sense on this logic to embrace merely those with one kind of innate predisposition, such as desire for same-sex sexual relations, while consigning all other categories of pervert and criminal to the proverbial cold of ecclesiastical oblivion, as though outside the pale of quote-worthy papal commiseration? Based on his silence hitherto, I would venture to guess that this hypocrite in a fancy dress still prefers his garden variety reprobates: the muggers, cutthroats and little boy and girl diddlers safely behind bars and thus thoroughly "interfered" with. Of course, these have largely remained outside the pale of the dernier cri of the defiled intellectual conscience of America and Europe's contemporary class of "cultured despisers" who, for all their crass relativism and supercilious pose of aloof skepticism, nevertheless insist--and this with the undisturbed mien of the unsullied intellectual conscience peculiar to that unique species of spiritually obtuse ape which F. Nietzsche once referred to as the "man of modern ideas"--the sacrosanctity of homosexual sex and the civilly consecrated homosexual union. Ye hypocrites
ReplyDeleteThanks for this article Michael. This Jesuit "black" pope is something else eh? His latest comment re: chastising the world for worshiping money is so hypocritical, it caused me to gag. Yes, we cannot serve both YHVH and mammon (as the Lord said), but for a man who represents the wealthiest institution in the world with all its assets, hidden wealth (not the least of which is beneath his feet in the Vatican) - to cry along with poor unemployed folk is outrageous. The RCC is low on funds. This guy is their chief fundraiser. He's quite good at this isn't he? I can see the 2 horns of the lamb in Rev. rising now. Since when has the world seen 2 sitting popes?
ReplyDeleteExcellent commentary. But I think you are wrong about the prophecies of St Malachy. I can find an interesting scriptural reference to at least the last 5 or so popes. I haven't quite worked out "Petras Romanum".
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