[Mrs. Don-o]

Actually, there's nothing wrong about solidly New Testament maternal imagery. Jesus said He is like a mother hen who wants to gather her chicks, like a housewives that wants to find the lost coin; Paul says God the Father is the One "in Whom we live and move and have our being" -- an image pregnant with meaning, if I ever saw one.

This is never, however, used as a way to re-identify God. God is called Father 255 times in the New Testament. Ther's a good reason for that.

The problem is that with this verbally incontinent, wilfully errant, Peronist pope of ours, you never know if he's going to go beyond Gospel imagery into full-fledged Gaia Goddess worship, which is just a disaster waiting to happen.

He's always careening around corners with no brakes. I find it so maddening.

[ebb tide]

Jesus said He is like a mother hen who wants to gather her chicks, like a housewives that wants to find the lost coin;

Francis was talking about God, the Father, not God, the Son. Do you have scripture quotes where Jesus referred to His Father having a maternal nature?