Posted on 09/07/2018 2:30:32 PM PDT by sitetest
Shall I tell you the most charitable, least rash explanation I can muster for Pope Francis’ recent words and behavior? It’s that he’s surrounded himself with yes men who are shielding him from understanding the depth and breadth of institutional sex abuse and its cover-up in the Church.
He’s appointed, or left in office, no one but men who tell him that the world is chock full of false accusations, that the whole scandal thing is overblown, that it’s all in our past — oh, and that right now would be a good time to talk about litter in the ocean. The few who will tell him the truth, like Cardinal O’Malley, are so outnumbered that even their dire warnings can be dismissed as local problems.
That’s the charitable answer, and it’s not great. If he’s in a bubble that protects him from seeing the true state of the Church, it’s a comfortable bubble of his own making. The servant of the servants of God is not supposed to be in a bubble.
But the other explanation is worse. Here it is:
I have a number of friends who have escaped abusive marriages. They tell me that Pope Francis is sounding more and more like the men who abused them. He’s sounding like the men who hid that abuse from the world, who taught their victims to blame themselves, who used spiritual pressure to persuade them and their families that it would actually be wrong, sinful, to defend themselves.
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Ping.
The question is, does he care?
That’s a hypothesis worthy of consideration. The comments about silence and prayer (paraphrasing) seemed a lot like what an abuser would say.
Good question. I’ve been acquainted with a few abusers in my life. Some of them seemed to care, and even attempted modest self-reform. Others seemed to care less. Still others seemed almost proud.
Many deluded people have a live-and-let-live attitude toward sodomites. They will protect a homo from accusations right up to the point of extremis.
However, I have never seen anyone defend a sodomite caught in flagrante delicto who was not himself a sodomite.
When guilt is no longer deniable, the useful idiots fall silent. Only fellow perverts continue to defend.
You do the arithmetic.
I have wondered this since he became Pope. He wouldn’t be the first.
I think she's got a good point. I think that Pope Francis' "I'm not saying a word" is abusive in itself, whether he ever so much as touched anybody wrongfully, or not.
For him to go on and on about openness and honesty, the duty of dialogue and accompaniment, etc. and then revert to this "don't ask, don't tell" mode is almost insolence on his part.
Act 1: "Transparency, parrhesia, don't be afraid, it's not a sin to question the Pope!"
Act 2: "Shut up," he explained.
You are right. We need the Truth. Hopefully God will make it clear.
Both suggestions indicates that Pope Francis is not capable for thinking for himself. I don’t believe that.
Jesus did not accept excuses, but healed those that had faith in Him.
Silence is not acceptable, the Church needs to renounce evil.
bergoglio has countenanced this homosexual invasion of the Church all along, thus I believe he is a homosexual himself, and should resign if he cared for anything else.
But he doesn’t. So the Church is stuck with him.
Woe to all the true faithful.
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