Posted on 02/04/2017 5:14:10 AM PST by Petrosius
Rome woke up this Saturday with something quite new, and very old, in its streets: posters throughout the City (in the style of the old "pasquinate") critical of the Pope.
In English, from the Romanesco-inspired Italian:
Ah Francis, you have intervened in Congregations, removed priests, decapitated the Order of Malta and the Franciscans of the Immaculate, ignored Cardinals... but where is your mercy?
These were common at the time of the Papal States (before the fall of Porta Pia and the full unification of Italy in 1870): not for religious reasons, but rather for political complaints, since the Popes were also the secular rulers of the Pontifical territories.
Since then, these public criticisms of Pontiffs mostly disappeared in the City, considering the new Italian authorities were now those responsible for the secular government of the old papal territories, and that the Pope remained responsible only for religious matters. They still show up all the time against Italian politicians.
But when, by common Roman consent, the most tyrannical Pontiff since the Renaissance, still has the gall of speaking under the name of mercy (!!!!), the humor of the Roman people does not remain silent when faced with this charade.
Frankie isn’t no pope. He’s just a thieving, two bit, Marxist pimp. He needs to be thrown out. #notmypope.
They are and expect more this to happen.
He will step down.
I guess time will tell who is correct... ;-)
If he is finally declared a fake pope (and effectively fired), then you are correct. He will have to step down, but he will never do it of his own accord (aka resign).
isn’t no = is ;-)
Cardinal Arinze was from Nigeria, very loyal to both the late John Paul II and Pope Benedict (Emeritus).
The eternal question, “is the Pope a Catholic?” is still relevant.
The Soros Group does not care - their man sits on the throne.
LOL! Thanks. I’m still on my first cup of coffee. That one didn’t work out very well, did it? ;o)
:-) Thanks for taking it well. Enjoy the rest of the coffee! I feel your pain.
The reality is that with Soros in increasing trouble, including 3 countries that have warrants out for his arrest.
Get back to me when he and his group are gone. Meanwhile, they continue to inflict increasing damage on western civilization like their friends in ISIS.
It would be wonderful if he would vacate the Throne of Peter, but highly unlikely. He’s power-crazed and he has simply arrogated to the Papacy more power than was ever dreamed of, even by the ultramontanists of Vatican I. And nobody has even started to oppose him seriously until now, when he’s already well entrenched. So he’s loving it.
The other problem, of course, is that he has probably done permanent damage to the Church. The bishops of Argentina, Malta and Germany are going their own Francis-way on questions of marriage, sin, free-will, the Eucharist, etc.; Francis has removed most of the orthodox people from positions of influence, silenced others, and filled the hierarchy with his heretical sycophants. He seriously thinks he’s not the successor to Peter, but the successor to Jesus Christ, come to establish a whole new Church after 2000 years of failure on the part of Our Lord. The new Church of an arrogant, arrogant, evil little man.
Awesome!
Either that (the best scenario), or he's too lazy and will send out the Swiss Guard to do it. ;-)
No Jesuits, please
I am a member of a parish which sent two young adults to Cracow, Poland last summer for World Youth Day. At the closing Sunday mass, when he anounced that the next WYD will be in Panama, Pope Francis did mentioned he will NOT BE THERE.
That does surprised me.
I don’t visit the religious threads, but the answer to the formerly rhetorical question/smart aleck answer “Is the Pope Catholic!?” seems to now be at least debatable.
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