Posted on 03/12/2023 12:12:34 AM PST by Olog-hai
When Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina became Pope Francis, much of his home country celebrated as if it had just won a soccer World Cup championship. A decade later, the first Latin American leader of the Catholic Church generates divided opinions and much less fervor.
Francis, who still likes to listen to tango, left Argentina in February 2013 to attend the conclave that elected him as the successor to Benedict XVI on March 13. He never returned.
“It’s clear, there are people who are angry at him,” said Argentine journalist Sergio Rubin, who recently co-wrote a book about Francis, “El Pastor,” with Francesca Ambrogetti. It includes interviews with the pope. […]
Rubin says there are reports from the Holy See’s Secretariat of State that advise Francis not to step foot in his home country because anything he does could “be a reason for conflict.” […]
Francis is “a controversial figure, especially among the most conservative sectors of Argentina,” political consultant Sergio Berenzstein said.
Berenzstein said those segments of society never “fully understood the change in attitude” of the pope when in 2013 he took on a decidedly friendly tune toward left-leaning then-President (Cristina) Fernández (de Kirchner). That was a marked contrast from the at-times hostile relationship he had maintained with her government when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires. …
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Maybe their fervor will increase if he saves a soul instead of spreading Marxism.
Too liberal for his flock in Argentina.
Actually, the Visigoths and Vandals WERE Christians. Arians.
It was a big effort for the Left to move up in the Catholic Church to get this activist dude into power at the Vatican, but I do have to hand it them, they did pull it off.
Like a good leftist, Bergoglio never misses a chance to divide.
Well, Arians did not believe that Jesus was Divine, only that he was a special creation by God higher than humans, but lower than God. Kind of like modern-day Jehovah's witnesses believe. If one does not believe Jesus is Divine, by default that one is not a Christian since this is a core Christian belief.
The Arian Gothic bishop Ulfilas evangelized the Goths in the 4th century.
The goths were Christians, just heretics.
Well, not just any heresy; they denied the Trinitarian nature of God which is enough to put one outside the pale of orthodox Christianity. For a similar reason, Jehovah's witnesses, Mormons, and other like-minded quasi-Christian sects that do not accept the Trinity are not Christians. What one believes about the nature of Christ is THE game changer, as the efficacy of our salvation depends on it. If Christ was not true man and true God, he could not be the One, essential mediator between man and God.
Yes, I know. They had their own baptistry in Ravenna, you know. It is indistinguishable from the orthodox baptistry.
I’ll give you some time to research this and discover you’re mistaken.
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