Meh.....who am I to judge?
Posted on 04/04/2014 8:00:57 PM PDT by ebb tide
Another Papal Scolding
“… they make themselves up like little holy cards, looking up at heaven as they pray, making sure they are seen…"
—Pope Francis, condemning Catholics (again)
When will the Pope's relentless bashing of his own subjects cease? Apparently not as long as he has breath in him and a microphone to speak into.
On April Fool’s day we had another rambling sermon likening Catholics to Pharisees who " go to Mass every Sunday, but better not get mixed up in things – I have faith for my health, I do not feel the need to give it to another… Christians who do not leave space for the grace of God – and the Christian life, the life of these people, consists in having all the paperwork, all the certificates, in order…. Christian hypocrites, like these, only interested in their formalities. It was a Sabbath? No, you cannot do miracles on the Sabbath, the grace of God cannot work on Sabbath days. They close the door to the grace of God. We have so many in the Church, we have many!”
Just who are these caricatures the Pope has in view? In Europe hardly anyone goes to Mass at all outside of traditionalist communities. And just who are these hypocrites who make sure they are seen when they pray? Certainly not like Francis, eh?
The "who am I to judge Pope" is a veritable judgment dispenser, but all the judgments seem to be against Catholics who are at least practicing the Faith. For atheists, “gay people,” the divorced and remarried—essentially the whole sinning world—there is only talk of mercy, combined with condemnations of Catholics who follow Church teaching.
This is as mysterious as it is disturbing.
Meh.....who am I to judge?
well maybe the Pope was talking to all the rich and corrupt Filipino politicians here who love to get photo ops attending church.
Come to think of it, maybe he’s also talking about Nancy Pelosi...
Thank-you and God Bless.
You got it.
What Pope Francis is simply is saying is to the “traditional Catholics” is make a better effort to practice a little more “humility”.
It doesn’t make a difference to Francis.
My older brother would say if the shoe fits, wear it.
Jesus said to do good works, not just talk about them.
Every day and every where,not just in Church.
While Church is the place to verbally teach the Gospel of Christ, its out in the world that actions really count and will speak the truth.
1 John 3:18
18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Yes; Cardinal Bergoglio comes to mind when when he criticized Pope Benedict for his Regensburg address.
Because everybody knows the biggest problem facing the Church are those haughty traditionalist who are too full of themselves to heed the call to greater laxity.
Yes, Jeff. BigGirl, along with Francis, think Traditionalists (and by extension Traditional Catholic teaching) are the biggest threat to NewChurch. They threaten the status quo.
Pope Benedict refused to give any photo ops to Pelosi when she visited him.
However, Pope Francis, the camera hound, gave Obama all the photo ops he needs to try to keep a Demoncratic Senate.
The “humble” Pope Francis is very photo conscious. When he stopped the popemobile to pick up a visiting priest from Argentina, he told the priest, “The picture will go around the world”.
No, it is rather the need and importance of avoiding having a “holier-then-thou” attitude which is not only sinful which can lead to the sin of pride, but also turn others off, and in a very direct way, any Catholics or possible Catholics to having a desire to come into the Church or return to the Church.
Pointing out the non-Traditional Catholic views of Francis and Vatican II is not about being holier than thou. It’s about speaking the Truth. If you choose to ignore it, that’s your prerogative. But don’t judge others as “holier than thou” because that is not what it’s about. Not to mention by you judging others as holier than thou you’re actually guilty of doing what you condemn.
How do you keep that beam in your eye, do you prop it on the feet you keep in your mouth?
Sorry, that was for Herr Ebb Tide.
Christ's love was to die, literally, on a Cross.
The Catholic Church in this country is about 80% people who are Protestant in all but name or Cafeteria Catholics at best but the Pope is the proper focus instead of local Priests and Bishops?
Pile on the Pope is so, I dunno, so Protest Ant like the crowd in Charlotte who piled on a faithful Nun with no fear of any blow-back from faithful Catholics in their own neck of the woods.
Maybe if the "faithful" didn't have bigger fish to fry in the person of the Pope things would be different down here in the sticks, right?
I don't see it. Sorry. I'm not being snarky, either, I just see a lot of complaints about what people can't do anything about compared to action where they could make a difference.
But then again, I've only been Catholic a few years so maybe it takes a while to catch on. Heck, I wasted good gas money I didn't have to go to Charlotte and complain in person at the Bishops little fiefdom. I should have saved my gas money and burned Francis in effigy, is that it?
I forgot to ping you in my response to something but I’m catching up from days ago so it may not matter.
Regards
(2) Protestants protest what the Catholic Church/Pope teaches versus what they see as Truth. Traditionalists protest what the Pope teaches versus what the Catholic Church has always taught prior to Vatican II. TWO VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.
(3) As for making changes? I don't know. I honestly think that only God can intervene in the Crisis that is the Catholic Church these days. But in the mean time, I'm not going to keep my head in the sand.
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