Yucking it up for a better world
For the fifth time in his two-year papacy Pope Francis has met with the President of Argentina. This Latin American socialist is a woman whose enemies mysteriously die before they can testify against her, but we are supposed to believe that she and Pope Francis have nothing political to discuss.
Are they talking about Jesus for an hour and a half?
The Vatican’s protocol officer is denying reports that a meeting between Pope Francis and Argentina’s president had a political tone.
Guillermo Karcher told local Rosario 3 radio on Monday that the criticism against Francis was “disrespectful.” He said Sunday’s meeting of the Argentine-born pope with President Cristina Fernandez was far from political.
One of the things I find most upsetting about Pope Francis is this idea that his politicized and twisted understanding of Christian doctrine is not ideological, nor is it political. The Communists stole our flag, he boldly proclaims, as if that thieving and murderous ideology were just a misnamed Christianity with an atheistic tinge.
The Pope is entirely ideological himself, if the word means opting for power politics over truth. Francis doesn’t sound very Catholic. He doesn’t act very faithful. He is the least pope-like pope perhaps ever. The only thing he truly can be said to be is political, a sort of Leftist political agitator in the role of Pope.
Yet we are supposed to all agree that all his activism is just the work of God. He even warns the world’s bishops not be to exactly the way he constantly is, as if He were the only one anointed to promote a thousand destructive and unjust causes in the name of Christ.
That’s why it’s so important to his proponents in the Obama-Pelosi-Castro circles and in the world-wide media that the Pope’s words be given the air of sanctity, that they be treated as something ‘far from political.’ Meanwhile the Vatican is packed with leftist hacks posing as bishops who apologize for the UN, insult faithful Catholics, and can scarcely utter a propagandist’s prayer. Global Warming is now Catholic doctrine and there is no room for dissent. As the Vatican’s Margaret Archer asserts, “I am appointed by the Pope” and “that leaves you out in the cold!”
It seems Fernandez does have something to promote in meeting with the Pope at this time.
Fernandez is now in her second term and is not running in October elections because a third consecutive mandate is not allowed. But she remains active in the campaign, and is backing some candidates.
Opposition lawmaker Elisa Carrio was among those criticizing the meeting.
Sounds like Pope Francis has landed once again squarely on the wrong side of that political game. Why do all these people-first people never side with the people?
That is not something for humble Catholic lay people to determine. It’s enough that we’re not disrespectful, that we don’t criticize the Pope, or dare to call his FrancisChurch political.