THE POPE IS WRONG ABOUT AMERICA

boblonsberry.com ^ | 09/22/15 | Bob Lonsberry

[Salvation]

an you voice your discontent without the vile language?

[AlaskaErik]

an you voice your discontent without the vile language?

Not in this case. I describe vile people using vile language. Besides, for this imbecile, it's so appropriate.

[pfflier]

So be it. It’s a great big world out there.

[Elsie]

WHY do so many Catholics JUDGE this pope so severely?

[Salvation]

I will pray for your unbelief.

[T-Bone Texan]

Father Guido Sarducci was a better role model and defender of the church than the current red Pope.

Plus, he smoked Camels.

[utahagen]

Elsie, I believe most Catholics have been patient and charitable with Pope Francis. However, the time has come to acknowledge that this Pontiff is not striving to uphold the Catholic faith; rather, he appears to want to undermine it. Last year's (pre)-synod on the family was a disaster and it seems the coming one will be even more destructive, with spotlights being given to renegade German Bishops pushing the “right” of divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion and even pitching the idea that Catholic priests should be able to preside over “commitment ceremonies” of same-sex couples. In an age when Catholics in developed nations shack up without getting married and divorce and remarry (outside the church) in great numbers, Pope Francis’s main concern is how to help people get annulments more quickly — and for free! He has said we shouldn't be “obsessed” with abortion — because that is merely the murder of babies — while he freely voices views about things such as “climate change” that are outside the purview of any Pope (in addition to being moronic and, frequently, bizarre, such as his rant against air conditioning). I fear the Church may be in actual or de facto schism within the next three years.

Further, I think the so-called “Francis effect”, that supposedly is leading legions of lapsed Catholics back to the Church, is an urban legend. Pope Francis does get high marks from Catholics who stopped attending Mass years ago, but have they started actually going to church every Sunday again? Not in any parish in the NYC area, I assure you. The main message non-Catholics and lapsed Catholics take away from Pope Francis is his “Who am I to judge?” remark that (I hope) was meant to refer to homosexuals who are trying to live chaste lives, but has been widely cited as evidence that the Church doesn't really take its old rules about homosexuality — and contraception and divorce, etc. — seriously anymore.

[mom of young patriots]

This site must keep you busy with all the spelling corrections you’d have to do in a day. I think most people here can translate the occasional typo, so I have a friendly suggestion. Why don’t you read what I wrote and comment on that instead?

[Impy]

Well Shortstop, it happened so....I’d say they were 100%.

Good article.

[Psycho_Runner]

I Strongly disagree with your appeal to continue donating to the Catholic church, or school. If this Pope wants to preach poverty then let the church lead the way.

If the Pope is wrong about economics and science(man made global warming)then what is the possibility that he is wrong on spiritual matters? There, I said it, the cat is out of the bag.

I was born Catholic, but has since claim to be Christian, as I suspected the church did not follow the teachings of Christ. This Pope reaffirms the core belief of the Catholic Church.

[daniel1212]

The Pope from a communists Country is still a communists. He does not truly represent Catholicism.

Wrong, since the duty of RCs is to follow their leaders who interpret what is written for them, and not be as Prots who seek to ascertain the validity of teaching by examination of the warrant for it.

And leadership elected the pope, which is an infallible decision (says Ratzinger), and treat even public proabortion, prosodomite pols as members in life and in death.

They are your brethren, and Catholicism is much liberalism overall , while we see RCs constantly promoting their church as the only one true one.

[Elsie]

Thank you for a detailed illustration of why many Catholics are not enamored with him; but how's he doing with the gospel?

The unchangeable teachings of the Church?

[Elsie]

If the Pope is wrong about economics and science(man made global warming)then what is the possibility that he is wrong on spiritual matters?

HMMMmmm...

[Elsie]

How DARE you point out the mindset difference between most Catholics and most Protestants!

[utahagen]

Elsie, this Pope speaks less about the Gospel than he does about left-wing politics. As for the “unchangeable teachings of the Church”, his push to streamline the annulment process — and to make it free! — do the opposite of supporting the Church’s “unchangeable” teaching that marriage is indissoluble.

[Elsie]

It appears that way.

I can’t wait to see how his remarks in America are ‘translated’.

[Duchess47]

My thoughts exactly.