{"id":2344,"date":"2015-05-11T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2015-05-11T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T21:49:10","slug":"gore-and-castro-think-catholics-worship-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=2344","title":{"rendered":"Gore and Castro Think Catholics Worship Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2353\" style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/gore-saint.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2353\" class=\"  wp-image-2353\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/gore-saint.jpeg?resize=378%2C356\" alt=\"gore saint\" width=\"378\" height=\"356\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coming to a church window near you<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Why are the most corrupt and tyrannical world leaders in unison ready to become Catholic now that we have Francis? Obama, Ban Ki Moon, Al Gore, Raul Castro: It&#8217;s like they all think Catholicism has become a completely new religion.<\/p>\n<p>Castro is ready to start praying once again if only Pope Francis keeps going the way he&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-32679290\" target=\"_blank\">going<\/a>?\u00a0 So Francis just needs to inch a wee bit closer to Raul&#8217;s ideal, and then he expects us news-reading simps to think he&#8217;s going to begin praying again after 50 years of murder and atheist oppression.<\/p>\n<p>Al Gore is in the same boat.\u00a0 He&#8217;s almost <a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/2015\/05\/08\/open-thread-al-gores-says-he-could-become-catholic-after-pope-joins-global-warming-band-wagon\/\" target=\"_blank\">there<\/a>!\u00a0 Just a bit more global warming theology and he&#8217;ll be ready to renounce his Southern Baptist &#8216;tradition.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I hope the Pope is able to meet their respective marks.\u00a0 That would be a great, great victory for dialogue and the culture of encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Who will Castro and Gore turn to when they begin their prayer journey though, Pope Francis?\u00a0 If Pope Francis has changed Catholicism so much that these guys are ready to convert, he must have trumped Christ Himself.\u00a0 In the Church they seem to envision, this would be the right form of devotion: pray to Francis.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ll be making any adjustments in their prayer schedules.\u00a0 Both of these men know that Pope Francis is just a man.\u00a0 <strong>He&#8217;s their man.<\/strong>\u00a0 They think <em>we<\/em> believe that he has changed our Church.\u00a0 They think <em>we&#8217;re<\/em> that easily duped.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re Catholic in the first place, you see.<\/p>\n<p>But they won&#8217;t pray to Francis.\u00a0 If Raul Castro and Al Gore pray to anyone, it&#8217;s to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are the most corrupt and tyrannical world leaders in unison ready to become Catholic now that we have Francis? Obama, Ban Ki Moon, Al Gore, Raul Castro: It&#8217;s like they all think Catholicism has become a completely new religion. 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