The Majority Of Cardinals Consider Francis Pontificate A Failure

Gloria TV ^ | January 12, 2019 | Gloria TV

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“The Majority Of Cardinals Consider Francis Pontificate A Failure”

The current Vatican regime will damage the Catholic Church, writes Russell Ronald Reno, editor of FirstThings.com (January 10).

Reno describes Francis as lax, ruthless, cold, cunning and quick to denounce, “He governs with gestures, slogans, and sentiments.”

Already before, Jorge Bergoglio wrecked institutions he was in charge of by sowing division, Reno adds. An example is the Jesuit province in Argentina.

Reno thinks that Francis will "cut deals with the secular West" similar to his power-sharing agreement with the Chinese Communists, “Francis pontificate is turning Catholicism into a chaplaincy for the elite interests in the emerging global world order”.

For Reno Francis' pontificate is “a failure”. He believes that the majority of the cardinals and other important churchmen are increasingly aware of this.

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Catholic Caucus

N.B. It was the majority of cardinals who elected Jorge to the Chair of Peter.

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[aquila48]

A failure??

More like an unmitigated disaster.

[DariusBane]

You can’t speak ill of The Vicar of Christ!

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"N.B. It was the majority of cardinals who elected Jorge to the Chair of Peter."

Thank you for mentioning that.

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You can’t speak ill of The Vicar of Christ!

Oh, really?

Didn't Jesus tell Peter, "Go behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men."

[jjotto]

LOL

The USCCB loves Frankie. They are proud of their socialism. Africans might be the last traditional group of Catholics.

[I want the USA back]

He’s a disaster. If you cardinals had any brains in your heads, you would tell him to retire. But you don’t.

[DariusBane]

Did I need a sarcasm tag?

[Leaning Right]

> He’s a disaster. If you cardinals had any brains in your heads, you would tell him to retire. But you don’t. <

I looked it up. There is evidently no way for the Church to remove a pope. But I guess if the cardinals threatened a public vote of no confidence, that might do the trick.

But why would the cardinals do that? They are like most GOP Congressmen. All they care about is not rocking the boat. A disaster 5 or 10 years down the road is not their concern.

[NELSON111]

And after Christ had ascended, did not Paul look him in the eyes and correct him because “he was to be blamed?” Yes he did. Galatians 2:11

[PAR35]

He’s no more a failure than was Obama. Both are quite successful in advancing their agendas.

[jocon307]

“It was the majority of cardinals who elected Jorge to the Chair of Peter.”

This is what has always confounded me. How did the same group of people (ok, I’m sure it wasn’t exactly the same, but I’m sure it was mostly the same) give us Benedict and then this guy?

It is really that that undermined my faith in the Church, more even than the atrocious behavior of Francis, whom I consider a world class nincompoop. He combines the worst of worlds, imho.

[PAR35]

John Paul I was removed easily enough.

[HangnJudge]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popes_who_died_violently

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> John Paul I was removed easily enough. <

True that. And Benedict XVI resigned in 2013 supposedly because of poor health. Yet five years later he seems to be going strong. So you gotta wonder...

[rintintin]

These folks passing in judgment on the supposed “success” or “failure” of a pontificate make it sound like a political office. They also sound loke Protestants in their assumption they can choose not to follow the pope

Calling the pope a dictator , for intance, is fine, but not if you’re part of the church that says the pope has infallible authority. That’s self contradictory. If you want to be free to disregard or dissent from the pope, you should be honest and join the Lutherans or Anglicans

[genghis]

I think that was the plan. He was an obvious homo nut job what did they expect?

[chajin]

As someone who knows practically nothing about the members of the present College of Cardinals, I have to ask: who would be a present-day cardinal who would both return the Church to its orthodoxy, and is electable?

[LeonardFMason]

His ASS-Holiness, Pope Francis the Worst.