The Next Pope Should at Least be Catholic

American Thinker ^ | 09/06/2022 | Christopher Skeet

[SeekAndFind]

Pope Francis doesn’t like America. Pope Francis doesn’t like capitalism. It is unclear whether Pope Francis even likes Catholicism. Whatever the case may be, he seems to be doing everything he can to dissuade Catholics from remaining in the Church, and to keep prospective Catholics from joining.

When certain Christian leaders, such as the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, or the Southern Baptist Convention president, J.D. Greear, speak, nobody listens. Why? Because they sacrificed Christendom, and the glorious civilization it produced, upon the altar of wokeness a long time ago. When the pope speaks, people still listen. But that’s rapidly changing, and for the same reason.

A few of Pope Francis’ more memorable pronouncements are worth noting:

• After the Uvalde school shooting, he told a Vatican crowd that, “It’s time to say ‘Enough’ to the indiscriminate trade of weapons!” 
• He blamed capitalism for much of the world’s “pain, death, and destruction,” and referred to it as the “dung of the devil.”  He called for “structural change” and for a “just distribution” of land, lodging, and labor. 
• He attributed George Floyd’s death to the “sin of racism.” 
• He sneered that market capitalism and neo-liberalism are “magic theories,” and blamed them not only for the spread of coronavirus, but also for inequality in general. 
• He blamed the ghastly murders of Europeans by Muslim immigrants, as well as the creation of ISIS, on the world’s alleged worship of the “god of money,” and referred to capitalism as “terrorism against all of humanity.” 
• He blamed Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to “NATO barking at Russia’s gate” and the “West’s attitude.” 
• And he responded to criticism from American Catholics by saying, “It’s an honor if the Americans attack me.” 

Pope Francis is also noteworthy for what he doesn’t say.

[Blackyce]

The false prophet isn’t a prophet at all. He’s the second beast of revelations. The chief priest of the antichrist.

And the church is rather obviously not united. I truly hope that that’s not the job your pope is committed to carrying out.

[MurphsLaw]

And the church is rather obviously not united. I truly hope that that’s not the job your pope is committed to carrying out.

Well prophets aside... what is your definition of "united"?
Do you consider America united?
I'm trying to think of something united... Not really seeing anything...
Do you have any examples of anything that is "united" in this world?

If you are Christian you should know that Christ prayed
for the Apostles and his Church- in that it should remain one.
Christ wanted unity- the unity of his body.
This would make it obvious - that for the Church to grow and flourish-
it would need a living voice repeating the desire of what Christ wanted-
down through the ages.

While some may think that has failed- and the Church is "obviously not united"-
by using other worldly standards we can see that the Church is the most united thing in the World- and has been so for over 2000 years... Is there any other?
Where hundreds of millions of people will gather on Sunday-
And read the SAME Gospel passages ALL over the world-
And will consume the Same Eucharist for the spiritual strength
to stay united to Christ as best we can.
It may not be perfect unity- but then again- show me that kind of historical unity still existing today- somewhere else.
With humans- you ALWAYS have DISUNITY - and thats satan's hope .

So keeping it together, That's priority one for any Pope- whether theyre up to the task - or not...

[JJBookman]

“Nobody escapes the hands of God.”