Posted on 12/05/2013 8:59:37 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Pope Francis is undergoing a popularity surge comparable to the way Barack Obama was greeted by the world in 2008. And just as President Obama has been a disappointment for America, Pope Francis will prove a disaster for the Catholic Church.
My fellow Catholics should be suspicious when bastions of anti-Catholicism in the left-wing media are in love with him.
Much is being made of his ‘compassion’ and ‘humility,’ but kissing babies and hugging the sick is nothing new. Every pope in recent memory has done the same, yet only now are the media paying attention. Benedict XVI and John Paul II refused to kowtow to the liberal agenda, and so such displays of tenderness were under-covered.
But Francis is beating a retreat for the Catholic Church, and making sure its controversial doctrines are whispered, not yelled – no wonder the New York Times is in love....
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Please go back and re-read that — it says Maronite, not marionette.
I share your concern for the very same reason.
A long way from “Father Smith Instructs Jackson”.
The question left unanswered is how were the fish redistributed after the EPA confiscated them and fined the Apostles for fishing in protected waters?
Update bump...
The writer of the article has been fired from his job as an entertainment critic for the church’s Catholic News Service. It appears criticizing the Pope is the one unforgivable sin.
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